With a pool you should always have it completely fenced off to prevent a neighborhood kid from drowning.I would not assume that the bank whom owns it or the town will care about the broken fence and replace it.

You said price is fine, but then went on to say the neighborhood has issues.

If you start showing up to the meetings with proxies for most of the neighborhood, your board might pay attention.   

Without sounding too biased there are some great neighborhoods in Akron for single family investing. 

Learn the neighborhoods first though.

I hear a lot of MF's in this City or Neighborhood don't seem to work, if I were you I would get into SFHs. 

It will convert pictures of paper invoices or whatever into PDFs on the fly wherever you are and you can email them to yourself, then either put them in an email folder for each property, or what I do, download them from email and save them in dropbox (I prefer this over google drive) which uses normal windows folder, and organize digital folders for each property and have subfolders for insurance, loans, tenants, appliances, repairs, you name it.

you need at least 3 of them that are interested and able to close on properties in that area if you intend on wholesaling it. as for fixing and flipping, the neighborhood must be in demand in order for it to flip within a reasonable time frame. the neighborhood has to be very marketable. 

@Alex Deacon  Maybe at some point, but right now we just want to try and park the money in a neighborhood we are familiar with.  

The organization is (as best I can tell ) a non-profit run by lawyers that sue insurance companies so they are biased to the homeowner, which for you is good.https://www.uphelp.org/blog/north-bay-fires-insura...2.