what a trip!  

@Lucas Carl We were in Gatlinburg a couple weeks ago as a last minute stopover from our trip to NC.

Maybe I'll try that - my only concern then is I don't get the chance to learn by rehabbing the home with the contractor and asking them questions (unless I wanted to make multiple weekend trips down).

join the military, trip over the first beer can you see, piss yourself, call me.

Tim Murphy at Smartland was great for me a year or so ago when I took the trip to Cleveland.

My mom and dad went on a trip with him, saw the spring bubbling out of the ground, and immediately bought the land he was selling.

I would look at the king county metro trip planner website.  

There are a few local companies that seem to have decent reviews, but you never know... and I don't want to have to make the trip out every month or something to check in.

Also, you might be tripping, and your lender might be wrong.

While on a road trip last week, I finished Brandon Turner’s The Book on Rental Property Investing, which was amazing, Ken McElroy’s ABCs of Real Estate Investing, and started Brandon Turner’s The Book on Investing in Real Estate With No (and low) Money Down.I’m extremely interested in the concept of house hacking and the plan for using that savings to help buy future SFRs that Brandon explains in his book and that’s what I’m going to spend a good portion of my time on researching going forward.