Rent $900 to $1100The catch is the house is on a busy street and across the street from a strip joint!

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Homeowner is unresponsive and unwilling to sell to anyone, likely due to some clouded judgement as a result of drug use (apparently, according to neighbor I spoke to yesterday).Is there ANYTHING I can do, speak to the bank/attorney/etc. to purchase the property ahead of auction/foreclosure?

I think that's a great notion for the obvious reasons of being down the street from your properties.

Every street around USC is different --  students living next to blue collar or even gang areas when you get further from the campus.

Many people aren't right in the head without street drug!

. : )First step is make sure it is cigarette smoke and not some other kind of drug which is more expensive and much harder to remove from the property.If it's just cigarettes the extent of the cleanup will be relative to length of time smoking in the house and the frequency.It is labor intensive and does cost quite a bit of money so figure that into your offer price. 

I looked at 2 for sale in Anderson on the same street.

If it's on a busy street, or it's unusually small, or is at the bottom of a sleep hill and gets flooded when it rains, that's a dealbreaker for me.

From what I know (speaking about my town of Bayonne) it is not the easiest of processes and if your town has a parking problem and there is no off street parking, they find grounds to reject it because of that (Bayonne is a bit of a nightmare street parking situation...)However, if you find a lawyer that has done it before and knows the process, maybe they can push it through, its a matter of gettting good counsel as far as i can tell.