I belong to NWREIA and they have several meetings every month, if you haven't joined yet, you can get more information at www.northwestreia.com/ and there is another, thought newer, real estate investment group called RareBird, they meet 3 times a month at the Lucky Lab in Multnomah Village and their website is http://myrarebird.com/investornetwork/.

Boston Edison area needs lots and lots of work.Indian Village needs to make a comeback. 

But I've found that as I've grown my business and gained more experience, the craziness of the business bothers me less and less.At some point, I think I just accepted the simple fact that its the cost of doing business and while it may blow that some tenant thinks they can be 3 weeks late on rent or some contractor won't show or some crazy village thinks they have the right to ask me to rebuild an entire house instead of just replacing the doorknob, it all comes down to those things are simply the cost of doing business.Evictions don't bother me anywhere near as much as they used to.

I wouldn't feel comfortable with houses any closer to the river then what I have (one near Czech Village and one a block from Harrison) without a proper flood wall.Its funny when I was in my 20s I felt like I was missing the bus not already having bought all sorts of real estate like the authors of the RE books I was reading. 

If not, that's me on the weekends for mowing, and $250 a winter for plowing.Last, but not least, does it require any additional inspections or certifications from the town/village before it is approved as a multi rental as compared to a single family rental?

Become more like villages.  

@Chris Petrillose  I aam NOT sating Ithaca is bad, not at all.I love BIG RED (Cornell) and Ithaca.I am saying get out of the villages and MOVE to Ithaca. 

Almost pulled the trigger on a vacation rental in Grand Lake village but couldn't justify the numbers.

Technically, most villages require that once you pull down a sizable chunk of drywall in a room(30% or more of the room), you have to update EVERYTHING in that room (i.e. electrical, plumbing, ductwork maybe).  

I think the German Village influence on Schumacher makes it stable and more desirable than the others.