Great buy and hold areas are where the block isn't drug infested yet fully occupied homes not a lot of vacant or board ups.

When you have a flea infestation and the animal moves out, hungry fleas will bite your ankles when you enter the unit.

The only reason he left was because his dog let the place get infested with fleas.Craigslist alternatives. 

Due to an experience with our very first tenant (massive roach infestation), we started including quarterly pest control and weekly garbage pickup and upped the rent amount.

You could have issues with pest and animal infestation.

I personally had to arrange for All Pest to come out for the second year in a row, despite your telling us after last year’s infestation that we should not have to worry about it again, and that you would pay for ongoing preventative treatment (note: we did pay for it).

However unless you have reason to believe the back house is infested you should be okay with the front house only.

I literally sniff out nasty stinky cat pee infested ran down shooter shacks.

To say that the entire city is a drug infested, gang ridden, ghetto is not at all correct.

Termite infested balcony rails, severe wood rot in garage doors, etc.I'm thinking these maintenance problems at so many HOA's are due to the recession.