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

There were drug-related issues and they violated the lease, so I served the 3-day.My tenant paid me January's rent in full.

I have been driving by parks that easily are twice that price and alot of them are in pretty dicey areas, i.e. no jobs, drugs, cars on blocks etc etc.

Definitely share with the sheriff the situation with the tenant (guns and drugs) if it comes to a set out.You clearly what him gone but long term paying tenants are the things that real estate wealth is built on.

I was struggling with finding the right amount of empathy and firmness to handle my relationships with unstable, often drug-addicted property sellers.  

The seller's agent drug her feet in getting back to my agent and missed promised deadlines.

There's a good chance that applicants on McDaniel street are drug dealers or prostitutes, because that's the main drag, so, you might have to deal with letter from the police, telling you that they might seize your house, if you don't evict the tenant, if they've caught them in criminal activity. 

high crime drugs and predominatly rentals.. no hope of selling to owner occupied folks... as they don't want to live there either... in our area there are NO true D areas all neighborhoods are filled with owner occs unlike much of the middle part of the country or the big eastern rust belt cities.

The neighboring house is a Columbian drug cartel safe house16.

Bottom line:  If you are looking at houses in a neighborhood and you think you would be more comfortable if you had a gun, don't buy there.The other MAJOR issue with bad neighborhoods is drugs.