The neighborhood would be classified as a "C" neighborhood I think, however, directly across the street was a very large halfway house.  

The current owner of the home only bought the parcel of land which the home sits on, and not the adjacent vacant ( and "undevelopable" as classified by the town due to not meeting zoning requirements) parcel of land that the previous owner also owned in conjunction with the house parcel.  

Simply because the law classifies a crime as a felony or misdemeanor shouldn't matter, the substance of the crime should be the determining factor.

What we classify as a "warzone" is a paradise in a large part of the world.

Would you classify your bank as an investment if you deposited money into your savings each month and then withdrew it 5 years down the road?

Number of properties doesn’t matter if you over paid and over leveraged.I’d think a new investor would be classified as someone who hasn’t managed through an RE downturn, and that makes me a new investor.

It is true that some areas can be classified as a no firearm zone.

We invest in what we classify as C and B neighborhoods (it seems everyone measures that a little different).

The property was in a “very high” fire risk area according the agency that classifies land in CA.

I only ask because it seems like most reasonable people would call it by what the majority of the work (and or cost) would be... and in this case like you said it's tree trimming.I would classify yard work and tree trimming as similar but separate tasks... and would argue that I didn't authorize the tree trimming (because I didn't know about it).