This might be different, depending on where you are in the country.

I then became active on BP and made some solid connections.You're off to a great start by completing your profile - Thank you for your service to our country!

I want to talk to all the banks I can about refinancing options, the bank we have our current mortgage in is Ibercaja and they are not too helpful, if anyone could share info on the most investor-friendly banks in Spain and also serious private lenders (without so many referalls and other like minded investors to ask about lenders as in other countries I find it hard to trust the advertising of private loans you see everywhere) it would be helpful also.

So my warranty and all builders in Oregon have the one year and I think thats pretty much country wide.

I look forward to continuing to learn from the BiggerPockets community as I navigate my real estate investing journey.I’ve had some success on the eastern shore of Maryland, though even that market has started to frankly become expensive, there are still pockets of potential growth both rent & appreciation, thoigh it’s becoming harder to find, also there is a massive rental shortage out there, a county I just put a property contract on, literally has 3 properties for rent right now, but it does make rental comps quite difficult, outside of that I’ve started looking a little more into western Md and some southern pa markets but still trying to get a feel for them, overall I think in this market places that are affordableish and have some draw will do well with the continued wfh + affordability crisis but keep in mind while I think the eastern shore is actually fairly safe market for the most part a lot of rural areas definitely have boom bust potential and in theory more risk than dc metro, though the low price points do by definition tend to mitigate some of those risks. 

Each of those will determine what it takes to put in a year round road in the northwest rain country.

The numbers are not surprising either.Real estate agents in 2019        549,000Real estate agents in 2023        440,000I think they should probably qualify these numbers, as these really are the ones WORKING AS AGENTS, there are believed to be 2,000,000 licensed real estate agents in the country, and 1,548,058 Realtors (members of the NAR) as of January 2023Did you know that the most common number of deals an agent does in a year is zero?

They run an extensive operation with many "partners" around the country.

Too early to say whether the licensing and legislation/reform that's slowly being introduced across the country will clean up the perception but currently this is how many in the industry (particularly the ones you want to build relationships with) view the RE wholesale industry. 

That said, I believe it'd be best to find a property within South Bay that will also feed our goals.We're aware that South Bay is notably pricier than most of the country.