Our property has HOA-mandated fences and faces a lake.  

Two of the biggest challenges I face are that I’m not very liquid at the moment, and the Seattle area is extremely expensive.

If you have three people renting together, combine their incomes into one to see if it meets the 3x requirement.However, nothing is that easy.

Sell a ton of properties to 1031 people in Memphis.

My investments are all in the Twin Cities suburbs, but I have helped people with financing as far north as International Falls :) @Jeff Schemmel who do you know in the Duluth area?

Are you referring to personal losses or other people had losses?

It's an asset that will continue to grow as more and more people and institutions begin to adopt it as a safer hedge against inflation than precious metals. 

Could work, but remember people that need hard money usually need it for a reason.

Some high and lowlights:- I had one tenant that brought German cockroaches in and then blamed it on me- Same tenant asking if her daughter can visit but failed to mention it was 5 more very noisy people- another tenant having constant loud arguments with his gf- tenant saved some of my stuff when the house flooded due to a pipe burst and another time during a monster rain storm.

The same with cleaners and maintenance people.