@Po Chan what I have seen in Houston is the reliance on "someone" will pay for a premium renovation in a impoverished area. 

I know all that information on sites like that has to be confirmed anyways, but it's good to know to not really put too much reliance on it. 

I buy these places because Pittsburgh has magnificently bad weather and my business model requires that I keep them in the portfolio and running for years.Perhaps what this disaster in Texas reveals most about rental real estate investors as a group is our over-reliance on housing inspectors who tell us very little about the suitability of buildings to bear up under harsh conditions, our over-reliance on numbers analysis and ignorance of basic construction fundamentals, our over-reliance on long-distance investing business models that leave us practically helpless when things really go bad for our properties and our tenants.

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Reliance on the false statement by the victim4.

Find a way to contribute to the passive income and “new” income side and reduce the reliance upon your salary with the initial goal of scaling back your hours to part-time or on a consulting basis.

Diversified employment base (for example, Detroits reliance on the automotive industry in the past was/is a risk) Healthcare as a major employer is plus.   

He operated under the certainty that his reliance on the Schenectady legal system to keep gas in the tank would never be taken away.

For thousands of years we have improved as a species via reliance and improvement from our village elders and wise people, it's how people can make decisions and actions beyond their capability, move the bar a notch higher for all civilization, through absorbing that wisdom from elders.

Another factor is L.A.’s heavy reliance on industries that were smacked hard by the pandemic.