I currently own and manage 3 rental properties that are bringing me about 1000/month for all 3 rentals along with having a full-time job in our local chemical plant.

@Vincent Plant My 2 cents would be to take @Ross Denman advice and leverage that cash.

That plant has been such a rollercoaster for the city's morale.

I can see up to a 40% drop, unless the coal regulations on power plants are changed. 

You can virtually make any house an "A" house but you can't change the neighborhood, unless you have so much money you can buy the neighborhood - and even then you might have structural problems that can't be solved: sewage plant; prison; projects; etc.My strategy is always to buy a C-D house in a B neighborhood.

Danny,Not sure if this will help in your situations, but I recently read that lots of liquor stores and convenience stores have been having this problem so they started planting classical music outside their buildings and the people stopped loitering.

If anyone is masochistic enough to be looking for an exercise or case study in this, look up the Federal Realty Investment Trust project at Assembly Square in Somerville MA:  a former Ford plant turned barren wasteland with (over time) multiple environmental matters on site to clean up.   

lol  Everything is a perennial and I'm trying to be more mindful about plant heights than some original homeowners were so, for example, things are less likely to overgrow a window if someone isn't trimming like they should.But I know my list isn't for everyone. 

This experience planted the seed for many other investment properties.

Grass isn't common so yard maintenance is super easy - "mature desert landscape" means dirt, rocks, and maybe some desert plants.4.