I'm looking for the same things as you also, trying to find a reputable PM and broaden my financing options. 

Aside from that Austin has quite the diversity, Hill  country, water activities, lots of outdoor folks (running, cycling, swimming, rowing, fishing) and it has areas to even cater the cosmopolitan people looking for swanky places to eat. 

Unfortunately its all cash upfront which is nerve wracking especially to little fish such as myself.  

I am a small fish in my local pond yet I am approached weekly, often daily, via calls, texts, and emails from people who "live in an expensive market and have identified ______ as an ideal Long Distance investment location and will be buying ____(insert audacious number of homes here_____ in the next year." 

The more you network or go to events where people have very similar goals as yourself will allow you to broaden your understanding of what you can do, and maybe also help you decide what you want to do, because this isn't for everyone.

In other words, we're all fishing in the same pond which makes it hard to make reasonable offers. 

As they sat there on their folding chairs, with their poles in the water, looking over the lake, "There are no fish in the lake said the man without fish to the man with a bucket full." ;-)He provides actual deals and actual numbers and actual checks, to those who are sincerely interested in Turnkeys.

Broaden your portfolio when the market is low get a section 8 tenant in at market rent and hold the property and sell at a high when the market is back or hold and collect your rent!!

WE determined that if we can still go on our fly fishing trip in late May to Canada we can have a beer and laugh about it..

You will need to broaden your search area to maybe an hour away from Portland.