Just no guarantee if things get better or worse in your neighborhood.   

The marketing/advertising firm, aka RE broker, is not the expert in building codes, zoning, structural engineering, neighborhood safety, etc.As a prudent investor, always do your own due diligence or you'll end up being (unitentionally) misguided by a RE broker's information.  

Next piece of advice is shop this deal around with someone through the forums or local real estate groups (google for your area). 

Ask them how well they know the neighborhoods in your target market.It all boils down to their experience working with out of state investors.

On the flip side, if you've got a bunch of Section 8 tenants living in a building that's in a neighborhood where a lot of the tenant base has good jobs, high credit scores, and are generally reliable people, you've got the most risky tenants in that tenant base and that ain't what ya want.

If you end up in Ohio and you end up in Cleveland you'll want to read The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods.

We weren't sophisticated enough to call it that, but we were both on board because I liked the potential upside and my wife loved the neighborhood (that we could not have afforded to get into unless we bought a dump of a house).

Interest rate is 6.25% Nice house, nice neighborhood.

If Chicago, are you already working in any specific neighborhoods?

But honestly, you'll want to shop around and compare a few local PMs since fees and services can vary quite a bit.