The study suggests that chocolate helps keep the heart’s blood vessels healthy.

(It certainly limits the buyer pool if there's a tenant in place) I've seen investors buy turnkey rental properties, and then turn around and sell them at a healthy profit to an owner-occupant a few years down the road; check the comps to see if selling to an owner occupant could provide a realistic exit strategy.

It's definitely not Austin, Denver, or Boise but it does have a healthy/steady amount of business and industry.

I always tell people not to become a landlord unless you are fully prepared for the pitfalls that are part and parcel of the job.However, this pandemic is a black swan event and is discluded from the regular inherent risks.Your post assumes that all landlords have a healthy portfolio of investment properties with years worth of reserves.

They have the same soil type as my lot (“Alderwood gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 15% slopes).

A developer buys a property for X amount of dollars, and has to put in all the infrastructure to support the project (underground utilities, roads, curb, gutter, sidewalk, drainage, deal with any environmental concerns, soil stabilization issues, earthquake requirements, cost of a neighborhood park, contribute to a nearby traffic signal, etc. and many unforeseen things) ALL of these things add costs to a development.

They take out the old ones (2), remove some soil, and put in new ones.

The environmental cost of inorganic fertilizer is in 1) the mining of the chemicals, 2) inorganic chems can can kill microbial life and damage overall soil health, and 3) runoff from lawns and ag with chemicals affects nearby water quality.I've been an organic gardener for years and don't use any chemical pesticides on anything.

Decades ago it was a radium factory and the EPA removed about 100,000 tons of soil which was radioactive.

HOW TO KEEP THE CATS OUT OF THE FLOWER BED:   If you have cats in the neighborhood who have discovered your planting beds as a good place for their deposits, lay down chicken wire mesh on top of the soil and cover it lightly with mulch.