The fear can be healthy in a way in getting you to laser focus on what needs done.

If he stays healthy, I didn't "waste" money on premiums.

You should become an expert at managing your finances and doing all the things that promote a healthy FICO.    

One has thousands of abandon properties and many were recently abandon, almost like a bomb went off and the other is a thriving top to bottom healthy market flush with investors from the entire planet.

Do you think the economy in ALBQ is solid, like job growth, development, redev, housing, investing etc is healthy?

The best way to a healthy real estate market is a growing economy with healthy income and disposable income growth and market-driven interest rates.

Hope you are all staying healthy and sane!!!

A healthy self-storage market will have a rental rate of around $1 per square foot.

Call the police anytime time you see trouble—even though the bad elements have scanners and will scatter when they hear when/if officers are dispatched (give cross-streets or the liquor store address when you call, not your own address) Hang in there if you can, adjust your rental rate, but don’t lower your screening standards at all—be very diligent, and be sure to get at least two previous verifiable landlord references (bad tenants can look good on paper, be long term at their last place, and will get a glowing reference from their current landlord)In the end, if you feel unsafe and uncomfortable and don’t want to hang around for the neighborhood to change, sell the place, call it a expensive lesson, and screen your next neighborhood more diligently than your tenants. 

For those of us that are not here or don't have healthy saving, spending and investing habits, it's going to be a tough slog any way you slice it.