They made an offer and determined the potential income based on the crime and social setting of the neighborhood.The landlord can be responsible for several things immediately if they choose to invest in that neighborhood:a) Making sure the building is secured -- e.g. putting on steel doors without windows and ensuring that all doors have deadbolt locks.b) Making sure all windows lock, and if required for the neighborhood, putting up bars on the windows.c) Ensuring that the building is sealed such that no animals can crawl into the building (stray cats, racoons, skunks, etc.)d) Exterminating if there are bugs there and ensuring that when the tenant takes up residence, there are no bugs.e) Potentially putting up security cameras.If it's an area that even the police don't want to go in (some parts of Detroit for example), then I don't know what to do in that situation as I've never been in it.

That ONE chemical, (whatever it is) added to the chemical soup we live in, may be the tipping point at which your body descends into disabling conditions, probably temporary at first and if not stopped, can become permanent disability.Information re formaldehyde can be found through the links at http://users.lmi.net/wilworks/ehnlinx/f.htm#FormaldehydeOkay, off my fragrance free soap box for now!

We were able to get the local police to list her as a missing person.

Look for any problems or concerns, these may become value plays for you.Local PoliceCheck the local police and sheriff websites.

This may be a stupid question, but did you report this to the police?

There's a difference between a squatter that the police can come and chase out and a tenant that needs to be legally evicted.

(nor should they be able to, IMO)Just don't pretend that they are all the sudden better off than you because of this ruling.The judge has only said the police are not REQUIRED to do this, they still can if they choose to just like they always have been able to.Let the police decide if the situation seems necessary to try to determine status.

As this thread points out our country is becoming a police state.

Many here police this site, when something is not correct we will comment as implications taken by newbies (80+% on BP) may act on incorrect advice or passing comments.

The manager hurried over to the house the day I flew into Dallas and changed all the locks and put up a lockbox without informing the neighbor daughterWithout knowing the liability risk involved with entering the home, the neighbor daughter found out the keys she has no longer worked, but the tenant had paid for the entire month of August already so they are still in possession of the house, called the manager and told him if he doesn't give her the code, she's going to call the police and have them watch her break the lockbox off the door and then send him a lawyer's letter.The manager shouted at her and said the owner didn't want to have anything to do with them any more, that they don't need to do any cleaning any more and everything left in the house would be thrown away, so she can't enter the house any more.I happened to catch the daughter on the phone heading over to break the lockbox and found out about all of the above and told her to calm down and I am allowing her to enter the premise with the lockbox code.The daughter cleaned out all the trash and moved all left over furniture in the home and met me for the final walk through the next morning (should be the PM doing this).