It sounds like you're "broadcasting" to a pretty wide audience, if so you're likely crossing "natural" price defining boundaries.

@Jeff Green "Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.

There are also insurance and tax brakes with green homes.

For exterior front door we use Essex Green.

Even here on BP a while back, an out of town guy was spinning a yarn and offering to sell some guaranteed return partnerships or something along those lines, which #1 made me wonder if he'd already crossed the line into selling what IRS considers securities (which he sure did not!)

Is there another option I'm missing (I'm about as green as they come, so forgive my ignorance).

When it comes to purchasing properties on the {bleeding} edge of gentrification or beyond, the only way to control who lives next door is to be the fellow doing the screening.Alternatively, you could sell your building and be rid of that part of town.I'm still working a full-time job and I can barely manage our own buildings at this point, and besides you need a RE license to PM someone else's units here.I cannot sell our building for a few different reasons.The thought did cross my mind to buy the problem buildings, but it just puts too many eggs in this neighborhood's basket.It just seems like there must be a better way besides a six-figure transaction (or two) to keep these low lives from ruling the roost.

Fingers crossed. 

The cross joists that support the railing are "climb-able" which also means that the if a toddler climbs up the railing they can fall down the other side.If you want a super cheap option, knock the whole thing down and just put stairs to the door. 1 days work and a trip to the dump to knock down and perhaps one more day to put up the stairs.Otherwise I'd look at building another deck there that would attract tenants.

I get the impression that Portland being very hipster centric  would want to push folks to use bikes as a mode of transportation over less green automobiles.