You’d likely have to get involved in task force initiatives, block clubs, community groups, get police involvement etc.  

One duplex that I'm flipping isn't in the best area, but the street it's on can almost be described as block-by-block.

And at the same time the Home Designer is saying that the actual color of the cabinet, floor, wall, window treatments are more important(having professionals to help can make things different) than just deorating house with furnitures.

Matching the color scheme.I don't think its wrong to use vinyl as a backsplash, so long as it looks great, and it certainly can.

For letters there's also lots of options to make your mail piece stand out from the others like colored envelopes and envelope art. 

It is white white in color and has fiber strands  to hold it together in a back-plaster type application both inside and outside does wonders to repair minor damage. 

I once called a complaint into "311" the local hotline when someone posted them on every light pole, hundreds on them in the neighborhood, signs on ugly orange colored cardboard.I didn't know I know the guy that hung the signs, and he complained when I saw him that someone squealed on him to the authorities.

less dark , more grayish in color and spread out.

Yes I know anyone with a few bucks can buy an a block or two of houses, but can you rent them, is the question?

Consequently, they are much lower than the house down the block that was bought three years ago.If the low allows the county to raise taxes based on the sale price, I'm sure the same law can and should apply when the sale show reduction of value in relation to the previous sale.