$30K properties in my area are teardowns or in areas that I wouldn't feel safe in.  

Prepare that the banl will use the one with the lowest score to be on the safe side.

There are exceptions, and your counsel can guide you through safely.

Tenants need a swift kick in the rear sometimes to understand that you are serious about your job (which is growing and keeping your business safe) and those notices followed by someone (a repair man, handyman, yourself) stopping by to assure the appropriate remedy has been fulfilled.  

The furnace can tell that this is happening and safely shut down, but then you have no heat until you thaw out the screen and reset the furnace.If the pipes come out really close to the ground, it may be possible to put some elbows and more pipe on them to move them further up, so they don't suck up stuff on the ground as readily. 

A old crumbling chimney will need repair / relined in order to allow the flue gases to escape the house safely.

Does it have egress windows, is it dry, and is it safe?

Background As many as 100 million U.S. adults – or nearly one-third of the population – have a criminal record of some sort.2 The United States prison population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.3 As of 2012, the United States accounted for only about five percent of the world’s population, yet almost one quarter of the world’s prisoners were held in American prisons.4 Since 2004, an average of over 650,000 individuals have been released annually from federal and state prisons,5 and over 95 percent of current inmates will be released at some point.When individuals are released from prisons and jails, their ability to access safe, secure and affordable housing is critical to their successful reentry to society.

Certainly a respectable and often used technique.

It is really a mixture of marketing techniques that help you succeed.