I don't know if it was a violent crime or natural causes.  

They provided me with a fairly long report but all were non-violent crimes, except for a few domestic disturbances.

If the building is really old it might be better to tear the whole thing down and build new.Look up crime only for the area with violent versus non-violent crimes and see if increasing, staying flat, or decreasing.

Very high crime rate, and violent crime at that.  

Pretty amazing to see what places are selling for around here given the amount of violent crimes that occur within a few blocks of my neighborhood (DTLB).

Nice to know that NYC (with it's violent crime and homeless & many other problems) that the city is spending it's energy & resources going after real criminals.

Burned out owner willing to sell for less- (Proprietary) property management company that will manage this complex currently has 9 team members and manages 150+ units currently- 12 month refinance plan w existing lender relationship, who is supposedly eager to take on deal- Want to wait full 12 months in order to have new FMV assessed (versus just taking sales price) on refi in order to increase max loan amount- Tenant vetting process: 3x income, >= 650 credit, no violent charges in last 5 yrs, no evictions last 7 yrs- ROI stated on the call is 8%-9% CCR in first 12 months; 11%-13% CCR on "any money left in the deal" after refi.- 60/40 on their accredited/non-accredited investors based on current investors - Crime/gang activity comment raised on call due to online reviews of the complex; hosts said they were not aware of this and it did not come up in initial due diligence- The 25% (of the 25/75) rent share continues on % ownership in the LLC after initial investment is returned.

For example, our criteria states you must have gross income of 3x rent, and cant have a recent eviction (3 years) and cant have a violent crime of drug offense  in the last 10 years.This way the applicant can see what you are looking for before they waste the time to apply. 

Secondly, it sounds like you can be pretty sure that this guy is violent.

No violent or sex offenders, but exceptions can be made based on the situation.