One source of cities to avoid is Neighborhood Scout's 100 most dangerous cities.Disaster Risk - Some parts of the country suffer frequent natural disasters.

There may be some local factors (nearby construction development or major change) influencing the owner to sell at a discount OR perhaps the owner has not been keeping up with capital improvements and the tenant base as suffered and therefore actual collections of rent have been impacted.

Its a duplex, in a "C" area of the Renton Highlands near the Renton Boeing plant.

@Michael Plante thank you!

On the exterior, removed all the overgrown bushes from the front and back, cut 2 small trees in front, planted some sod, power wash exterior of the house, and added mulch and solar lights.

Suffering today in an effort to earn greater success and income for tomorrow so you can relax and feel secure at some future date is insane.

@Michael Plante the area I have been working in has just exploded in the last year plus in SWFL. 

The Milo’s tea plant was recently built there, there is a Macy’s distribution center right across from Milos, and a lot of other new construction in and around Owasso.

The folks planted behind those loan officer desks remember it, and the underwriters are all a bit jittery.

You suffered a loss to your property, they need to pay to remediate.