They're going to be doing some cleanup work on the house this week so we will go back and see how it looks.

When I purchase a 50 unit trailer park I rented 3 large dumpster to clean up all the trash around each trailer and charged each tenant for my time but offered them for no charge to clean up them selves.

What am I paying form if they arent helping me to clean up my title?

It was the owner of the house and a couple of neighborhood teens who handled the demo and clean up.

I built the deck, which I think might have been worth it in terms of what I would pay one of the skilled workers to do, but I found myself doing things cleaning gutters, power washing, landscaping tasks, mowing, cleaning roofs, general yard clean up, that I could have hired out and not spent my time doing. 

Account ClosedI would clean up the debris, repair missing boards,  and put down hardiebacker and then tile.  

We were told on a duplex by the last owner and the appraiser that it would rent for $950 a side .... it rented for $1450 a side after 3 months of clean up... mostly cosmetic.  

Leaves some very telltale signs and a huge toxic cleanup bill.Not saying motels are a bad investment.

Is it ever worth trying to "clean up" a neighborhood, or just let it be what it is? 

Compilers, like ourselves and Listsource, do a lot of data cleanup, add other data (like amount of equity), and make it easy to filter to just the records you are interested in.