The interesting thing about Search on BP is that once you have entered the term, on the left are ways to highlight certain kinds of results, and you can choose your type of information.  

Anyway to get to your questions: 1) Got started with the vacation homes, love this niche and will stay here. 2) Bought in the area because of family who are a second line of defense to my contractors. 3) Yep, we knew Portland pretty well, but only the highlights, there are still a number of emerging neighborhoods and markets here. 4) Learning about the area - I forced myself to do a Blog on my web site for the vacation rental which helped me learn more, I also subscribes to the local magazines and small community newspapers, they give me a wierd look when I tell them my adress, but hey, it is a GREAT source of info. 5) Relied on family who knew the area and my RE broker, he is fantastic. 6) The lessons learned - know ALL the expenses up front, that 10% for maintenance you do not think you need to budget, you do, I know.

Occasionally something that I know I'm going to need or a sale will be highlighted on there.

Highlights of the article:Mayo Clinic economic hub of the cityExpected to double population from current pop. 110,000Create 25k to 45 k jobs (Mayo Clinic plans to create 15k)Redesign downtown and 7 newly created neighbourhoodsRail link to Minneapolis Foreign investments pouring into the city from Hong Kong and Saudi ArabiaResidents concerns: -influx of out of town construction workers-under funded infrastructure projects-lack of clarity on spending-affordable housing

It works very smoothly from my end and I haven't had any complaints from the applicants.I like to highlight the fact on my application that I am not collecting any money from the applicants through this process.

The point of my post was to highlight to people that these are very serious situations and each require a reasoned judgment call.Tim - I'll happily come to free america.

I would opt to change the floor to something that highlights the tile maybe.

I believe you highlighted Action-Fear-Passion.

That will paste in the user name that is highlighted in blue, like you see your user name in this response. 

Bill mentioned it but I will highlight it a little more.