The type of tenants I attract are kind of “Pinterest home” tenants (it’s a niche lol) and they love the attention to detail I put on the design.

I was just wondering if I was the only one that was having a hard time looking at a distressed property and actually visualizing the renovation or "make over" sort of speak.

As you have already stated, this is more than likely a bad idea, unless the stigma of parks change here soon..then development will be a lot more attractive for a lot of investors and this would be a potentially good opportunity. 

We have put a lot of time into attractive & effective marketing materials (copy, great photos).

@Andrew Bateman, @Jeremy Chaudet definitely knows more about the Philly market than I do.Right now I’m trying to find a multi family in one of the areas of Philly that attracts young professionals to house hack and I’m finding it difficult.

Also I will be very curious about early data points on if this is successful in attracting capital to certain areas (will be an early indicator of possible opportunities for appreciation)!

If there is an attractive property and people have done their homework to believe the lien will not be paid (e.g. deceased person with no relatives) then everyone instantly bids 0% hoping to effectively buy a property for nothing but the back taxes. 

Obviously, FHA is an option, but because it includes PMI for the life of the loan we are not a fan of that option at all, as for conventional loans those are definitely more attractive.

fixed a visually large foundation problem for $10,000 that apparently everyone else was scared to tackle What was the outcome?

This also was attractive to the seller because of their situation.