These two realities, combined with the statistics of your local market will be able to shore up your confidence.  

@Crystal SmithI want to thank you for the details and your personal experience with this type of investements..of particular interest is the correlation between crime and weather; is this your hypothesis or do you have any proven statistics/research on this?

Interestingly, I just read an NAR statistic this week stating 2/3 of all REALTORS are female:The typical REALTOR® is a 54-year-old white female who attended college and is a homeowner.67% of all REALTORS® are femalehttps://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/quick-real-estate-statistics

As the other responders have said you have to be very careful about reading magazine articles and then taking a one dimensional view ignoring general  demographics while looking at individual market  statistics. 

A bold choice that will delight some and turn others off.

Foreclosure Market Report shows that foreclosure starts increased from a year ago in 96 of the 219 metropolitan statistical areas (44 percent) analyzed in the report.Twenty-one states posted a year-over-year increase in foreclosure starts in July, including Florida (up 35 percent); California (up 3 percent); Texas (up 7 percent); Illinois (up 7 percent); and Ohio (up 2 percent).Nationwide, 30,187 U.S. properties started the foreclosure process for the first time in July – a 1 percent increase over the previous month and less than 1 percent year-to-year.