My landscaper refused to continue working with it as a lawn planted on it would just die come fall/winter in NW Washington’s heavy rains.

However....the upside of renting is that you wouldn't be doing what we do.... spending much of our time pruning, planting, staining, painting, fixing, remodeling something, thinking about adding something (like..."

I have learned a lot from you. our title plants are digital.. so we can get date downs on the phone as a premier client. 

@Jerry Tan that's so true- and because of that you'll want to choose a market where rentals are resilient enough to withstand management mishaps.

are there Fortune 100 companies coming into the area (building a plant or relocating their headquarters) in the next 5 years?

These thieves conduct military-like raids on facilities, stealing the plants and attempting to destroy the irrigation and lighting systems. 

Also - The lender already mentioned a short-sale to them so that seed has been planted. 

It took two months to get resolved and the tenant left the property so dirty I had to replay all the flooring..Including a nice bamboo floor, paint everything because the non smoking property was so gritted up from pot smokers, and strip and refinish the kitchen cabinets because there was so much grease on them it was like a rendering plant that had never been cleaned before.Maintenance — contractors can be contractors and the PM really do nothing to hold them accountableFollow up — they do not follow up on anything unless it creates revenue for them.  

Our family owned company does that, but obviously we can't run our own plants and mills due to volume, just like a rehabber can't run their own plumbing manufacturing plant or their mining of copper then turning it to a copper pipe.

A hundred years ago, most homesteads were quarter sections (160 acres) but frequently only a portion of that (perhaps 80 - 100 acres) was available for planting (the rest being consumed by ditches, sloughs, bluffs/shelter belts, farmyard and pasture).