Louis as you know can be very block by block and requires some inside expertise in order to ensure a profitable investment.

He will face an increasing amount of pain and pressure for many years before he digs himself out of THAT hole. 

I experienced this when I lived in SoCal given the wildfire exposure and the SE has also been feeling the pain with all of the hurricane exposure.

Areas like Fountain Square, Bates-Hendricks, and Irvington have seen revitalization, but you’ll want to do your homework on specific blocks.

I currently work as a consultant, on a project that deals with a lot of risk assessment, identifying pain points for my client in areas of improvement, along with these types tasks, there is a lot of tracking and monitoring of multiple different requests that are going on at one time, as well as having to manage my team and personal to ensure we are meeting all necessary suspenses.

If your current guest calls Airbnb or Vrbo or wherever they booked, the platform will cancel and block your calendar anyway until you can prove you are free of bugs. 

One thing is upper darby Varys block by block so definitely scope out where your buying cause some parts are worse then others.

That's my mental block.

Loan:$20k down, 3 year balloon, 4% interest amortized over 30 years.Sale: $727,000This was a 4 unit property located a few blocks from the beach in Panama City Beach Florida.We decided to sell due to the amount of work needed with no renovations and sold for $727,000 less than a year later.

Better than nothing, but it was so aggravating and painful.