Half a century ago, Detroit was the place to be when Motown ruled the world of automobiles.

When I purchase $400k NOI for $4.2M with $500k NOI year 2 and $600k year 3 WITHOUT major unit capex I immune myself to many (not all) market risk. 

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Painted Post.

Purchase price: $106,000

Cash invested: $12,000

Side by Side Duplex with 3 beds and 1 bath in each unit, in ...

however in the Great GFC ( and I am not predicting one in the future at least I hope not I may not survive another one).. no asset class in any city was total immune .those with max leverage lost properties its a fact.. some big established REITS multi billion dollar companies went bank O and lost their entire portfolios.. 

Crap I would be better lending to all these guys and let them do all the work.. so we took our 10 million and created a HML business  and grew it to just over 35 million over the course of 6 or 7 years.. but then the GFC hit and it was at that point I realized that Cash flow rentals are not immune I was funding a bunch of them and ended up owing 200 of them and we got our clock cleaned.then we looked at a niche performing note model not a NPN model and have done about 60 million in that business last 5 years.. conservative returns but predictable and FAR more appropriate for IRAS most of the time compared to the risk of actually owning the asset.  

And you won't come back.So you have residents hiding serious infections even from their families, trying to bribe the nursing assistants to help them hide that they can no longer control their bowels and vomit reflex, a general terror of being written off as no longer fit for "unassisted care."

1) no one is immune from lawsuits, sadly, but there is usually a waiver of subrogation and an indemnification provision in true NNN leases so that the landlord's costs and defense are handled by the tenant.

Back in the day, it was the home of the General Motors Lakewood automobile plant. 

With the vast, vast majority of rental guests driving to the Smokies the large overnight increase in gas prices caused a moderate (and short lived) disruption in the overnight cabin rental market.I wouldn't say our overnight cabin rental market is immune to large economic events by any means.

Density developers often spend a decade getting approvals for projects.  30 years of past behavior results in chronic housing shortage and a disappearing of affordable housing stock that continually gets renovated to supply wealthier residents.As for clean energy, California built suburban style cities that rely on automobiles.