As the proverb says, ‘Society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit.’  

Many individuals who were furloughed are going into their 401(k)s to cover expenses, and millennials who are saddled with student and consumer debt, and who were already suffering a form of PTSD from 2008, will likely only become more cautious.

I'd plant some trees or something that grows tall on that side of your property.

No remorse or shame from the pain and suffering he's caused.  

The bricks at the planting beds at the front door are a bit messy and there are vines in the back and some other plants near the AC that need trimmed. 

It’s just a different type of investing where you may suffer from inflation (higher repair costs) while not benefitting as much as prices have caps. 

Not to mention its surrounded by old industrial factories that are abandoned, warehouses, power plants, water treatment facilities, shipping docks.  

Grab it.The best quality investments in this (relatively) higher rate area for houses is high quality primary residential areas that are suffering due to lack of quality buyers.

Larger complexes are a long term game, there will be less market influences with larger units, SFDs in mature neighborhoods may have external obsolescence, functionality issues that a large complex may not suffer over 40 years, you may have more stability but a larger complex is what it is too.  

The biggest employer in the area is the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant.