However, if your property is anywhere near U-district, it'll be less likely to face any depreciation.Due to the recent concern of mob, 'defund the police' and homeless managing for Seattle city, the trend of moving to the eastside is obvious.

Most earthquake polices have extremely high deductibles, so if it's a new acquisition you don't have much equity in, it may not pay to insure for earthquakes.

Open Data is data made available and typically updated daily/hourly which might include Police incidents, Inspection data, and other incidents that will have plenty of information to indicate if a property is vacant, if there's any code violations, and other indicators that may help you find motivated sellers).

But most of the issues are north and police stats indicate about 2/3rd’s of the murders occur in a specific area of north St.