Of course, poverty breeds desperation which in turn breeds crime, so if you're going to invest in areas where folks have unstable employment with low wages (and therefore very few choices about where they can rent), then you'll likely see higher crime rates in those areas.

I love SEC 8, especially in a market like today where renters income can be unstable.

America is one of the biggest companies, so to speak, in the world, and one of the most financially unstable.

Account Closed  or they are unstable to begin with as in D type areas with D type tenants.I think he said they are not renewingmy experience is that tenants in the south east were we had our 350 home portfolio stay 18 months on average so turn over is real and it skews your returns big time

It is acknowledging that people can be unstable mentally and may use technology to harm you (not necessarily physically). 

Unstable then the CAP Rate will balloon to 20%.

Assuming they are working and can afford the place I would have no problem with a person like that as my tenant.That said, with everything happening there the market has got to be unstable and any investing would be pretty speculative.Also, I would love to see your sources for people burning their own houses down in protest.

That's because interest rate environment is so unstable and that can kill your cash flow.

My sister who works in accounting for the government said that i shouldnt get into house flipping because the real estate market is unstable.

I've considering along the lines of option 1 but it's just been too unstable, odd, disengaged from the economy, etc. for me.