That area is definitely not a B neighborhood; it has a high violent crime rate and very low median income.

The police focus their attention on the ones committing violent crimes. 

Yoochul,He was upfront and honest about being a felon for a non violent white collar crime and he his law license had been reinstated, he was looking to move since he had just gotten a divorce, and the ex had taken the house.

The violent crime rate is terrible.If your price point is for properties in the 30k- 80k range outside the west end, you could do better.

I was right on it in Palo Alto)So for natural disasters its safer than most.. but for violent weather that kills many IE Tornados Hurricanes lighting  Zero chance.. other than the afore mentioned Columbus day storm of 1962 which brought 100 plus mile an hour winds to metro PDX and NW Oregon. it was a once in 500 years storms.

Do you draw the line at violent crime?

If you think about it, pretty much every property where a violent crime was committed goes on to become someone's home.

Reese you just added what those of us that fly little airplanes call an addition to our experience bucket like not flying through violent weather LOLwe do a lot of buying at on line auctions.. there is always a deposit.. many times a deposit of 2500 just to make the bid..So not sure how information got out there that no EM was needed.now some areas in these low value assets folks use 10 bucks and such..Anyway.. on larger deals we buy that are over 100k to 200k we usually have to put up 5 to 10k.. as EM now for me I like that keeps the wholesalers at bay.. and evens the playing field your not competing against folks that cant perform .now you know be ready next time.. 

If they've been good tennants so far maybe they've grown up.Personally though I think if things got so violent charges were filed once then it could happen again.

Violent crimes, black market enterprise, etc.