The big warehouses/dist centers being built half hour away may help but several key employers left in recent years and it's only been downhill for Salem really since '08, it just never bounced back.

You-know-what rolls down hill. 2021 was full of builders notifying homebuyers of a choice: a) pay a new higher price, b) back out and don't buy our house, we'll just find someone else to sell it to, for at that new higher price.

Almost all sewer lines have 'bellies' in them, no big deal because they are sloped and **** always runs downhill.

This all rolls downhill, because if the property is only worth say $200k from local comps, that is all it would get appraised for, therefore even if you had a buyer willing to offer more because of the STR success, they wouldn't get the appraisal they needed for the loan.  

You are basically rolling a tax snowball down hill and it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

So if the area goes downhil fast you dont have all your investments there

My biggest lesson I learned was when I moved out of state to start a co-working business I left my "friends" in place, they did not take care of the property and it started going downhill quickly (no cleaning, parties and one of them even was selling drugs out of the house) Kicked them all out and rented to a family and it has been smooth sailing since. friends and business don't mix well.

The country is going downhill fast.

I will then get my grader in there and septic guy, move 2 septic systems further down hill and add 6 more pads for mobile homes.

That said the communication went downhill whenever there was an issue.