It has since undergone ridiculous gentrification, and is now (according to that map) more expensive than Pacific Palisades - which will never cease to dumbfound me.Like all major cities, the role of crime, gangs, drugs, etc., can have a depressive effect on your rental/house values.  

Federal Pacific boxes? 

And I keep thinking of the thriller "Pacific Heights" and no landlord wants a situation to devolve in that way.

Looking to get in to multi family real estate investing in the Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia Area after BRRRR A duplex or 4-plex. Any thoughts and advice on the PNW multi-family market?

The water conversation sometimes turns to the ideas of drawing water from the Great Lakes some 2,000 miles away, or building extremely expensive desalination plants on the Pacific Ocean, but those ideas are pretty outlandish and cost-benefit studies consistently shoot them down.

You look at the Pacific Rim investors buying west coast real estate in the TOP markets (  LA, Silicon Valley, SF , Seattle and Vancouver BC) and never renting it..

The Pacific Northwest has a lot of rent control areas, but it has mild pleasant weather and pleasant people. 

Hello I am Aubrey,I am a Branch manager With Growing-Funds.com or Growing Funds Investments (Pacific NW branch USA) aka GFI.

The few that don't get rooted out PDQ.Imagine how much your costs would go down and how much savings you could pass on to your customer without all the ridiculous fees and permits in the Pacific Northwest.I just watched "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" episode where a guy bought a lot on a bluff overlooking the ocean (far above the sea) to build a house for his kids to grow up in. 15 years later he was selling it never having moved in.

But, you're right on the Pacific Ocean, so very ethnically diverse, food is amazing, you have views of mountains and ocean, and it's very clean and safe.