@Joe Villeneuve Great information.Do you look at historical trends of vacancy and percentage of renters?

In other words there were a lot of similar properties available.I do want to warn that San Diego properties historically have always appreciated in the long term and the rent typically appreciates similarly but in the short term there are down cycles some of which last for quite a few years. 

It is the worst flood event to date (historically).

LA happens to be one of the few locations that can keep up with historical index averages, if you can invest there that would be a big time plus.

There are definitely syndication deals that involve low income housing tax credits or historic preservation credits (as well as other tax credits) that offer incentives besides appreciation and deprecation.

Or simply the energy saving cost, the production value: my PV array produces 3600KWh on average annually, it should have at least 20 years left on nominal production, so on a straight line it would save $7,2K at a minimum, or considering the historical energy prices inflation with PSE of 10%, that would equate 21K.

Worry less about paying taxes now as taxes are historically low.

Their response to me has been that they are satisfied with a very low cash on cash return because it is better than they can get locally and because they consider a city like Seattle to be a safe place to invest as far as the government not seizing land, and because appreciation rates have been historically very good.

@Yonah Weiss I don’t have a degree but I would think that having knowledge of US history would be a benefit because one could find valuable historic properties that the average investor or person would overlook.

As @Marc Winter said, the City of Scranton itself has historically had some interesting political and legislation issues compared to its neighbors.