If you're going the umbrella insurance route, make sure it will cover you for several things including just the routine slip and fall (like mold or earthquake).

Looks like they were hit with an earthquake.

What are the environment risks - flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, weather impact on the physical asset?  

Ride out the upcoming downturn and sell as the next peak is approaching.Also, do yourself a favor and put earthquake insurance on Beaverton and Vancouver.

Sort of like a flood, earthquake, or hurricane.

I've lived through the declared "Cold War" (that continues to this day despite what folks say), through Granada, through the Communist Insurgency in Thailand, through Shaba II, through part of the Lebanese Civil War, through the invasion of Grenada, the bombing of Libya, through the Persian Gulf War, through the Invasion of Panama, through the Gulf War (again), through the intervention of the Somali war, through the intervention of Haiti, through the Bosnian war, through the War in Kosovo, through the war in Afghanistan, through the Iraq war (again), through the war in North-West Pakistan, through the Libyan Civil war, through the war on Isil, through the war in Afghanistan (again), and through the (current) Yemeni civil war.How is this not business as usual?

As the region is bracing for a big one, should I be getting earthquake coverage for these investment properties?

FACT: We have had 393 earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area in the last 12 months.

Or California 10, 15 or 20 years ago because of wildfires and earthquakes! 

We are also concerned that all 3 of our properties are in the Bay Area, and a huge natural disaster like an earthquake could wipe us out financially.