About six or seven years ago I was working for a home improvement company which paid me to walk door to door setting up appointments for sales reps to come out and do estimates. We would go to all sorts of different areas to do this. Some were very nice. Some were very not.

One day, I was working on a street that was filled with beautiful homes. Most of them were two story colonials, and they were all kept immaculate. Every single house but the one on the corner. This home was dilapidated...