It's like the police, you don't say anything to them, they can't help you.

Go to REIA or other real estate meetups, speak to experienced realtors that are long-term investors themselves, try and find a police officer and or fire fighter that invests--they know the deal, speak to licensed contractors in the area you are interested in and find out how they feel about working there.Hope this helps. 

It was reported to the police and the owner of the property.

If you have an older house that was added to decades ago, and the county records do not reflect those changes (they did not obtain permits back in the days when this was not well policed,) the AVM will kick in and a huge discrepancy will occur in perceived value.

I doubt there are bird dog police out looking for people who do this.

Since, the police won't escort me through a crappy property.

You know it's getting bad when the grafitti on the bathroom walls is so badly misspelled that you can't figure out what dirty word they were trying to convey.On the other hand, correcting a person's grammar or spelling without being asked to is an act of hostility and not only causes hard feelings, it makes people stop posting.Contrary to what the grammar police and spelling police dearly believe, it does not make them look like superior beings because they understand the inner workings of spelling and grammar.

If that doesn't work, then I ask the victimized tenant to call the police when the noise gets too loud (or call me and I'll call the police).

Last year, for instance, I was unexpectedly confronted by a loose pit bull who wanted a serious piece of me before I dashed inside and called the doggie police.

Originally posted by "**********":It wont take long for the NR police to bombard this thread though, as there were many responses in NR favor to the original post.The moderators have banned most of the NR posters because of their constant spamming, so you may not see many responses. 8)