Unfortunately, there will always be some bad apples or even bad investments with good intentions.

Companies such as Apple & Google are moving in, developments are breaking ground and expanding their footprint creating new opportunities & investors from all areas of the US are starting to fix & flip.

You're comparing apples to oranges.

I guess it's like apples risk vs. oranges risk: recently-built apartment complexes are apples and involve risk (the construction defects, the stress Class A experiences during an economic downturn, etc.) and value-add/renovation type business plans involve oranges risk: you won't probably see any construction defects, but you have more vulnerability that the renovation plan + improved operations plan + repositioning will not work as optimally as originally hoped. 

I always encourage "kicking the tires" comparing options and "Apple to Apples". 

Apple and google creating more jobs there is interesting to me, as I remember when Seattle was still "affordable."

I was actually driving for apples, you know, just looking for run down apple trees, pies in the windows, all the usual signs.   

Like any other venture, you will encounter throughout your life; a few bad apples will ruin it for the whole bunch. 

They'll go 30-yr ams, and why rates may be in the 4's or 5's, the longer am and options for I/O periods will still increase your cash flow.

If you really wanna get crazy, there are hybrid amortization options as well. 30-yr terms, but I/O during first 5 yrs, then converts to 5-yr fully amortizing loan (no balloon).