I would just come drive around the neighborhood and look at the houses and vibe and see if it feels worth exploring to buy. A lot of comments on here are acting like Highland Park/Providence Park are the ends times when in reality it is a historically segregated area that has been shut out of development and city services. In reality though, most people who live here are older black folks and multi generational families, and now a growing amount of (mostly) white, millennials with dogs and babies. This area is changing (for better or worse, don’t know yet- much like what we see around Richmond as a whole) but let’s not forget the Fan and other areas that aren’t “sketchy” also get shootings and I would argue have more issues with break ins and porch thefts. This violence is a city/wide and national problem not a neighborhood problem.