One of the tenants, who is month to month, has not paid May rent (or June), and my son also caught him stealing something from my son today and filed a police report.  

The police will tell you this if you call and try to get them removed.

I'm going to see what neighbors and some connections I have with the police department say to have a more clear view of what I'm getting myself into and how to move forward.

In the city you're also paying an effective property tax rate of 5% and have to deal with the city BS as @Andrew Michael mentioned.The ordinances don't just hit you if the tenants get police calls now @Robert Fountain as of this year if they let weeds grow up on the sidewalk or the tenant puts their trash out early and you get more than 3 code notices in a year (very easy in a four unit building of subprime tenants - shoot we even caught a neighbor leaving trash in front of our building) and they fine you just like under the police ordinance.

You can jump on line and find crime statistics on each of these towns and or talk to the local police in each town to find out what areas to stay away from.Hope this helps you.Rob

The police have picked him up several times but let him go after 12-24 hrs.

Police and government corruption, the city recently ranked the 2nd poorest city in Florida.

I had an interesting conversation with a police officer the other day.

We actually had an out-of-town owner in the next unit who rented out to like 17 people in a 3 bedroom, and police and social services were no help because they said no proof that many people live there (could be sister visiting with kids, etc.).

Commissions resources and their investigators work on a very limited budget and only want to allocate time to the most serious cases.It's kind of like with police in that if you call saying the neighbors dog's is barking too much versus them getting a robbery call they could care less about the dog call.Sellers use brokers and agents to weed through buyers to find the ones the seller is searching for.