(I cannot stand cigarette smell) In any case, my landlord tried getting rid of the odor, which was always temporary and basically smelled like a "pretty smell" mixed with the cigarette smell.

There is often not a direct correlation between some of these systems because investors think that conditions are only temporary and thus they factor that temporary status into account when determining what is a 'fair' price. 

If you watch the local news, shootings almost invariably occur in one of those three sections.If you have some risk tolerance and don't mind owning in the hood, I'd think about finding something in any one of the three.The South Shore is still pretty reasonable price-wise. 

If you're a landlord in St Clair Shores, Michigan, which property management company do you recommend?

A Bank is a bad place to keep your money unless it is temporary. 

East side of redline in moco, route 1 pg county. and if thats too expensive i like the eastern shore of md. would stay far away from baltimore espically bmore city outside of a class areas.

Some of these changes will be temporary, others will be lasting.

To claim that it's no different than Wyoming or Tennnessee is laughable.Yes, we're seeing some pretty crazy stuff happening right now but it's temporary and not happening everywhere.

The other issue was an old temporary truss the roofer forgot to remove.

Eastern Shore?