Essentially I believe the market here is slightly depressed at the moment and I am trying to get an overview of what (if any) real estate strategies could work well in this type of situation.

I was in a very depressed state of mind and never cared about paying bills or keeping credit in any fashion.

I have tenants in that property so it wont sell for a few months, but I want to buy during the winter while prices are depressed. 

Because of their disorders, they can't hold a job, they often can't get along with their neighbors or roommates , they don't have enough money to manage on their own,  and they are lucky if their payee isn't stealing from them.

You should read up on recession and even more so, depression.

Specifically K Falls.which has been in depression ever since Jeld Wen was sold to Canadian firm and closed..  

All so that the landlord can feel he's a good person.For broke people, Christmas is a time of extraordinary monetary stress and the same depression that afflicts everyone else.

It took me a while to move past savings accounts ("earn interest on the interest") to stocks ("they can go down as well as up" [my parents grew up during The Great Depression]), but I had to start somewhere.One of my neighbors told me she has an app on her pre-teen son's smartphone that sends him daily emails about his savings account.

But by all means check, especially if it went up in the late 30s (early 30s is extremely unusual -- Depression era).

After a short identity crisis and mild depression brought on from self doubt of spending my mornings in the weight room in a sleeveless shirt, I accepted the fact that real estate really can buy your time back...