Learn to become excellent at the fundamentals: Locating & negotiating great deals, accurately analyzing potential deals, and building key relationships with cash buyers along with other key players that will bring deals your way. 

Over the next couple of years many players entered the market and failed.  

Good to see an NFL player taking care of his financial future so early in his career!

Hello everyone at BP,Im a soccer player that has been interested in real estate investing for as long as i can remember.  

Oh yeah, get out to some local real estate working groups and meet the local players in your market. 

This reminds me of the hockey analogy "A good player goes where the puck is while a great player goes where the puck will be."

:>)I like to compare out investment strategy with hockey: "A good player goes where the puck is while a great player goes where the puck will be."

You are in the right place to learn and dominate your market.

@Jenn Kinchen Networking with professionals in the industry, marketing directly to the owners (calling and mailing), and establishing yourself as the go to player in your market for bigger deals is gaining some traction for us. 

A lot of Chinese buyers have gone to Seattle but Trump makes them nervous (me as well) so I don't think they're as attached to US markets as they are Vancouver and if Seattle implements the same anti-foreign measures as Vancouver I think they would choose Vancouver over Seattle.The capital controls are mainly focused on corporate purchasers and the smaller time players but I'm assured that the really wealthy/connected can still move money out yet flows are lower.