How does a bad neighborhood impact a storage facility? Any thoughts?

We have a facility here in Raleigh, NC on Capital Blvd.  It is in a high crime area with low income housing and cheap apartments and weekly hotel rentals.  I have seen alot in my 11 years here but nothing we can't handle.  We had a couple break ins, but nothing serious and since have installed adequate security.  We keep it clean, we stay strict on rules ie. no bands, loud music, no hanging out, no working on cars etc.  We provide a high level of excellent service.  We have assigned parking, no tailgating in/out of the gates.  At night it's lit up like an NFL football game.  We have good motion/infared security but most of all, we treat our tenants like we want to be treated and have very little trouble.  WE DON'T have 24hr access. Anyone who is on the lot after 9pm is trespassing and will be subject to police removal, no exceptions.  We've not been robbed yet in 30+ years...knock on wood, but I know 2 local shop keepers, one a tobacco store owner and one a pawn shop owner who have been murdered in the last 10 years within a mile of my facility.  I would say we are very successful.  We stay above 90% Occupancy and keep delinquency low.  We don't tolerate people sleeping in units and when it occurs, its immediate eviction. Good consistent management is the key.  It would be hard for anyone to do this job in this location but my resident manager, Thomas Meutsch, makes it work really well.  There is a delicate balance between being too intolerant and knowing when you can make an exception.  As far as pricing goes, we are lower end of the spectrum but we are a 30+ year old tired looking (but clean) facility so go figure.  Recently, we reopened our parking lot with assigned spaces and good signage.  I doubled the prices. The result is high end RV's and boats and NO junk cars or everyday in/out work trailers.  I have a "current tag/no flat tires or broken windows" policy.  So most tenants in  the parking lot do not come and go everyday...nor does the headache that can come with that like excessive gate wear or trash spilling out of work vans every afternoon and morning.  Also, there aren't 30 workers constantly trying to squeeze there cars everywhere and then hop in a big truck to go to work.  I hope this helps.       

Orocean, I have kicked my share of unit dwellers out.  I hear ya.  It's hard to explain to the nice woman in a Honda minivan decluttering her home that the person peeing in bottles next to them lives there...Congrats on getting your facility back in the game! Awesome success!