The former owner's probably local, you self-manage, and in my city, it's not wise for local landlords not to go the extra mile to help out other local landlords, ever. 

I invest in multi family in the Kansas City, Mo market but also do the occasional flip in Portland.

Still a great city to invest in; Good C/B class properties for $60-$90k, cheap to set up an LLC and easy to evict, Lots of people and still lots of jobs.

The city is changing.

I am a total newbie from the NOVA area looking to purchase my first property in baltimore city; however, I am a bit sketical because its in a bad neighborhood.

I can’t say that I’ve ever had city bird before.  

I'm having trouble estimating rent b/c its dependent on the utility allowance.How do I found out the utility allowance for this property (or for my county/city??)?

Once I joined the air force I found out Wichita was a city a lot of people loved.

There are often hidden costs--such as: engineer certification of the structure (depending on what the city requires) smoke damage to portions of the unit(s) that are "not affected" additional insurance during the rebuild, sealing the framing that has smoke, etc. 

@Mike D'Arrigo and Lake City Bank