Looked at it with Google street view, and it was a tropical fish store. 

Littering on streets in the US can involve with an fine, wasting energy not.

It beats the pants off taking out a normal HELOC, spending the money and then being on the street when they run out of cash.

It appeared to be a posting from someone with a single property and created an environement of comfort. "4 br/ 2 ba, good street, rent 500 contact x @ xxx-xxx-xxxx.Alot of people who go to the library have found and are starting to use craigslist for property searches.

South West corner is bad but many streets that were good when we were buying there for a hedge fund are pretty rough now.  

Real Estate investments change not just city to city, but neighborhood to neighborhood and sometimes even street to street.

It was in different sections, you could look up an address by street and the owner's name was listed with other information and it would identify tenants.

It works great to go talk to potential buyers find out what they are looking for and then go pound the street to look for the deal.

Not an "atrocious" street just "very horrible".  

I just bought a two unit building in the u street corrider and debating whether to have long term tenants or furnish it and rent it out for short term use.