The way I look at it is I want to do some Geo-Arbitrage, meaning that if some natural or man-made disaster were to occur in any given area it won't totally destroy my portfolio.

yes you can get 10 houses that cashflow better but you also get 10 higher chances that a tenant will destroy your property costing you a year or more to repair. 

in every market a tenant can destroy your unit, but in tenant friendly markets you may not be able to get them out of the unit for many months.  

Imagine the frustration this investor feels when they walk into a recently vacant house that they used to live in which was destroyed by the former tenants.

Vacancies, late rent, repairs, tenants destroying property, maintenance expenses, &evictionsI will make you an offer to buy your home AS-IS.

Inflation destroys the value of fixed rate debt - or even variable rate debt, below the rate of inflation - over time, resulting in financial gains for the debtor and financial losses for the debt owner.

LOLI have 2 teenage boys and they destroy groceries so fast. 

There's enough city stuff in Spokane to get me by (They have ramen, sushi, $20 hamburgers etc if those are musts for anybody), but no traffic, an upward trajectory instead of downward in many ways (crime is down, wage/job growth up, etc), and of course the ID side doesn't have insane government policies that seek to destroy your financial life.

Get with the times now.. or be destroyed!

Get them out before they possibly destroy your place.