Sometimes tenants get violent and break your leg.Fixing a broken leg can cost up to $7,500The average cost of a 3-day hospital stay is around $30,000So, your return has to be better than the risk. 

Then I look and see that the violent and property crime rates are pretty high.

No drug distribution, no evictions, no sex offenders, and possibly the most important to me is no violent crime. 

If you're going to be dealing with tenants who feel free to call you up to insist you can't evict them peacefully, sooner or later, you're going to come up against an unpleasant truth they don't tell you in the real estate classes: irrational and violent habitual losers with little to lose act like irrational and violent habitual losers with nothing to lose once in a while.

The risk is the landlord doing something violent.

and non-violent property crimes like petty theft, low grade burglary, low grade vehicle theft, low grade receiving stolen property, etc, RESULT IN NO JAIL TIME. 

If you look at a crime map you'll see that some parts of your triangle have more violent crime than the most crappy, run-down blocks in West Baltimore. 

There are a lot of different crime stats, but pick a category like violent crimes that you can compare across the board.Once you've done some homework to find out what you can on your own, then contact an agent to help you narrow down your criteria based on DOM. 

They have the Frey Benito bridge blockaded so the only way into Uruguay is on the ferry.The people are nice, immigration is easy, there is a lot of diversity in climate and terrain.Crime in Buenos Aires is a bit high, and can get violent, although nothing like the violence in Brazil.

The idea being that with an agreement in principle, I can sign and NDA and get access to other information that I need, such as 3 years of financials, and get seller to make warranties, e.g that there has been no violent crime on the property within the last 3 years?