I don't want to make the assumption that Rental Real Estate went down hill.

It all just goes down hill from there. 

Most roofs have pretty decent warranties and water intrusion on asphalt shingle roofs usually shows up pretty fast, because the water either flows downhill over the shingles or it doesn't.

In my experience, the yard is the first thing that goes down hill when a tenant starts turning bad.

Plumbing is the easier as all you have to know is that "Crap flows downhill."

It surely doesn't feel like Seattle is heading downhill anytime soon.

The current residents had a big herb garden in the back and it has a fairly smoth down hill incline as well.

Not only is the layout weird and small, but you walk (pretty significantly) up and down hill as you step through the main level.

Obviously whoever will be taking the trash out is going to struggle going down hill every week and who ever is driving downwards will be have to careful going downhill and make sure there are no cars passing by.

In 30 years as a landlord I have had 3 evictions. 1. was when I used a rental company in a soft market and they never collected the deposit from the renter before she moved in and it went down hill after that. 2.