@Wayne Brooks you're assumptions are why you cant see the answer. 1) My mortgage was 65% of my homes value, so my payment is considerably less that that of someone that purchases it a retail price. 2) Expense writeoffs make an investment home less expensive than a private residence, more so now with the SALT Cap on tax deductions. 3) Depreciation that you get from an investment property.

Any local hangout spots within a block or two- bars, convenience store selling beer, soup kitchen or homeless shelter?  

I completely understand that governments don't want a huge uptick in homelessness to deal with right now. 

However, if your property is anywhere near U-district, it'll be less likely to face any depreciation.Due to the recent concern of mob, 'defund the police' and homeless managing for Seattle city, the trend of moving to the eastside is obvious.

There is just about no other group that has higher maintenance, unless you rented to homeless crack addicts who would steal all the copper including the wiring in the walls to sell for a rock of crack!

My advisers, professors, and peers could not believe that I hadn't done an internship with a fortune 500 company and thought that I would end up homeless because i chose not to attend career fairs.

The rents from the other units can make owning your own home less expensive.

They would put a homeless person in for a month then have to evict them the next with repair costs coming out of your pocket.

I only take home 28k and she takes home less than me.

I weighted the outcomes for the possible pro that he was; didn’t responded to my 3 day notice (acted like as if he'd never gotten one ever since I'd handed to him); he could have dragged the eviction for up to 5 months long rent free by utilized the corrupted legal system (at lease it’s for my case) like I’d read it somewhere (there‘re actually courses out there to walk them through; step by step; days that involved with the court system), in addition to the possible property damages before he finally moves out if he felt like it and the way he’d lived my house that was worse than those homeless who are by the corner of 6th and Maple in Downtown L.