I have a tenant who lives on one of these "warzone" streets and she complains about how dangerous the neighborhood is--but whenever she elaborates, it turns out she is actually complaining about a constant police presence breaking up rowdy teenage parties.

Key things to note are noise violations and "red tags" (if police respond to a party complaint and have to shut it down).

I remembered his option price was around $23 but did not want to misquote since the typo police is in the house!

Until one was stopped by the police and had to go back and pull them all down...

I have evaluated a few dozen properties now from several well known turnkey providers on these forums, and while they polish up their marketing materials pretty nicely, when I run my own numbers with my own financing and assumptions these deals rarely look interesting from a cash-on-cash return perspective, so I feel like I'm either I'm only seeing the scraps that other investors have discarded, or my expectations just aren't realistic on what to expect out of these turnkey providers when utilizing conventional financing.

Check your state laws, but my GUESS is that if you feel the property has been abandoned you can post a 24hr notice to enter and then go there with the police.

I have done my own installation one (1) time using prefab granite slabs (purchased from Floor & Decor) and did save alot of money, but it took two full days for me and my wife to do the installation (the undermount sink took forever to cut and polish).  

I've seen investors pick up police stations just the same.

Really looks polished.

The police won't be able to help you.Good luck.