Had you been a real estate agent, picking up some elderly or disable person is actually required under ADA, equal opportunity and access.

It hurts the elderly and the poor.

I guess it depends on the market.In SOME parts of the Dallas area, the following is still possible SOMETIMES.1)  Pay $30,000 for a house.2)  Spend $3000 to fix it up.3)  Rent it for $950 a month to a single elderly person that is easy to get along with.4)  Property might be vacant for 2 or 3 days when the tenant leaves.Most out of state investors seem to be happy buying retail in our market. 

main driver here is how bad the covid thing really is and whether we can contain it here. it appears elderly are at most risk. with the warm weather coming, this hopefully will assist in reducing the spread. for once, we might actually prefer a hot summer. 

I had to lecture the tenants of one house where three elderly ladies live.

Here is an example where I keep the rent a bit below market:  Elderly tenant on a fixed income, few complaints, will not move for a long time. 

@Matt MichaelsonOther residents are elderly and probably haven't looked at their attics.

The things we are considering; My son needs to live in his home for 4 months before renting it out [Nationwide insurance requirement] so he is planning on meeting his neighbors during that time, having coffee, lemonade, and cookies on the front porch and welcoming all to help themselves a couple hours a day, joining neighborhood watch, and he and my grandsons are already planning to ask a few of the elderly homeowners if it would be alright to paint or fix their fences or whatever [small stuff] Would these be good things?  

I can't speak for other locations, but for everywhere I've looked within 150 miles of me, most of the properties I look at come from elderly family members passing away and leaving behind a house with a good bit of deferred maintenance.

It doesn't matter that you didn't know or that you didn't intend to.You need only one complaint, particularly from a vulnerable party (elderly, black or other minority, someone deemed "incompetent", someone in bankruptcy, and on and on - then they pile on the charges.