Again tenant quality is going to better with respect to cost of living.Yes very good points about tenant qualityNo war zones in Australia, but certainly higher crime/ undesirable neighborhoodsDefine savages??

Would it be a smart investment to go ahead and buy a duplex in a more undesirable area at the moment and fix it up. i know rent is much lower in those areas as well. seems to be more class c areas. i Am working with an amazing realtor but still wanted to get on here and hear other peoples feedback or advice.

For those who have dig hard to find deals and work with certain undesirable elements, some of these books are just raw info and not real training.

If your tenant is not that strong or your property is in an undesirable location the lenders won't offer you as good as a deal and you may end up with little to no cash flow.

Developers ended up creating entire communities that reeked of cheap construction and undesirable locations.

* The time between discovering you have methamphetamine users (or other undesirables) at your property and the time it takes to get them legally out.* "Professional tenants" who either try to get into your property or do and won't leave.* Unsupervised children recklessly destroying your property, creating havoc in the neighborhood, tearing branches off trees & bushes, making graffiti, and creating a noise nuisance.

Sure you gotta know rents, taxes, local laws, etc. but a tenant in a lower asset class, undesirable location doesn't care about your spreadsheet rents or your taxes.

As the PM, you are simply the messenger and the owner does not tolerate late rent payments :-)  It's always a good practice to have a highly undesirable late fee on your side to "encourage" them to pay on time. 

Basement masters are pretty much undesirable.  

Every state and county has a place where the undesirable people stay.