You can see whether those crimes are murders or traffic stops.

This work is not mysterious, it is math. 

I absolutely recommend  you schedule a trip to walk the areas you will be owning in and I regularly show folks from BP through my holdings to help remove the mystery from  zip codes and neighborhoods here in Toledo. 

Mysteriously, the auction house has somehow been able to get into contact with the HOA and property management company on several occasions and has confirmed that the unit can be rented.  

Often the reason listed is the mysterious "Beneficiary Request" or "Trustees Discretion".

If you don't want to take the risk of having someone manage the deal for you.. and being in partnership with a bunch of people you don't know never met and to unwind would be expensive.. then just find a really good commercial broker and have them find you a property that a developer has bought rehabbed and is reselling.. no big mystery to it.. a great commercial broker can be a lifelong contact for you and make you a ton of money. this assumes you have the wherewhithal to buy these on your own of course..

So you know what's up.Download your HOA owners laws.. and figure that out.Get a copy of the tenants lease,, if they have one if not,, then I would venture to say they are month to month tenants if they can not produce a current lease document.Good luck,, sounds like a murder mystery.. :)

Just imagine if a prior tenant walked right in and robbed or murdered the current tenants and you contributed by forgetting to change the locks

If while watching the news, you constantly are hearing the same street name where murders and shootings take place (Prospect, Troost, Quindaro, etc.) avoid that area like the plague.

I'm imagining the worst...like a murder suicide occurred, poltergeist or glued down shag carpeting lol.