Also look at crime maps for violent crime and stay away from those areas.

I call the applicants that appear to be qualified, When I talk to the applicant, I ask about their current living situation, why they are moving, what they do for a living, if they have pets, will their be other adult occupants, I tell them about the special features of the unit that will be for rent and let them know that our units are no smoking; for otherwise qualified applicants, I will CONSIDER applications with no more than one eviction filing or non-violent felony with an explanation of the circumstances of the case.  

Higher rates of property crime, violent crime, etc.

Lastly, we have a clause in our leases pertaining to violent crime, drug activity, police-involved domestic incidents and the like, shall be sufficient cause to subject the tenant to eviction. 

It's not a high-crime area, there's no drug actives or violent crime, but since it is vacant and no one has kept an eye, and the utilities are on, anything can happen.

Rochester has a higher per capita rate of violent crime than NYC does.

Be careful in Champaign, violent crime seems to be increasing.

Be sure they have no prior evictions violent criminal history or on Megan’s law list .

You want to see the violent crime levels and if they are declining, staying the same, or increasing.Family Dollar is struggling right now and not the same as Dollar General for credit.Define lower income.

The mental illness alone shouldn’t be much of an issue (unless it makes them violent), and assuming someone else is sort of looking after them.