Aside from sheer curiosity, if a local agent (whose livelihood depends on selling property) discourages the sale because it's in a "bad area" you shouldn't even bother to examine it.
If you do decide to do visit it, I definitely advise being heavily armed when entering "the area". Have the agent let you out five blocks from the house -- and walk to it. If you survive the trip, consider why anyone else might want to pay to live in the same environs...
Rural Mississippi has plenteous beautiful and lovingly maintained homes -- on scenic acreage. Why consider a house that probably is a trashed-out drug den -- whose resale value is permanently destroyed by its environs -- no matter how much "fix-up $$$$" you miight put into it?.
FUGGETABOUTIT!