@Keith Kellermeyer Thanks for the welcome and book recommendations, I'll check them out!
@Jeff S. Thanks for the response! I have a good amount to start with, couple hundred thousand. I would be open to other markets but it does make me nervous investing somewhere I'm not familiar with. I'm not dead set on Portland, but I would need to do a significant amount of research if I'm to invest elsewhere. Deal scarcity doesn't excite me haha. What are some of the regulations you're not happy with?
@Jonathan Greene I appreciate the response & advice! I was thinking Beaverton/Hillsboro area west of Portland. You've got Nike & a few Intel campuses, and a fair amount of recent growth in Beaverton specifically. I still have family/friends out there and while I haven't explored it explicitly with them, I'm fairly confident I'd be able to leverage my connections on the property management side. I was originally thinking single-family homes to start, but condos could be enticing (there are also a fair amount of them popping up in Beaverton). My thought was single-family homes would be easier to manage starting out, but I realize that might not be true. As a first-timer, do you think a multi-family unit would be a tougher start?
