Local to me many of the properties that look vacant from the street are actually drug labs.

Otherwise, you may look like you're justifying the value of a drug dealer to an addict. 

A 7 cap is absurdly low for Lansingburgh, that area is one of the sketchiest in the capital region, half the houses are boarded up, theres a TON of rental inventory on the market because even low income renters are fleeing the drug violence.  

@Jake Peterson @Brandon Turner has a couple good recommendations for deciding if you're in a good location in his book "The book on rental property investing"... he gives a few different tools to search withCrime stats - www.crimereports.com Schools - www.greatschools.orgjobs versus unemployment - he said he uses www.city-data.com drug use in the area the overall look of the neighborhood done by just driving around

In contrast, we had someone break into the washers and dryers on numerous occasions, a drug dealer, a pot smoker, a gal who had boa constrictors, and more issues in a month than my 9 SFRs had in a YEAR. 

They arrested her a month ago for drug charges and now she is out on pretrial release to her parents.

Are you sure he didn't have a prescription for medical marijuana?

I have heard from people that around that area is horrible drugs and gangs and violence and stuff so I got kind of scared to look in that area but hey your there right now and if you have properties there thats awesome.

Now I hear from neighbors that her Probation Officer was doing a check to approve her to live there and found drugs and caked in the drug task force to search the apartment.  

Of course the hookers would be the tenants on the upper unit and the drug dealer would be the main level tenant.