But there's a lot to like about the Portland suburbs as well, it just depends on what you are hoping to achieve, the skills or assets you bring to the table, and your timeline.

If you deed a property from your personal name to an LLC - especially a disregarded entity - it doesn't really do anything for taxes or asset protection.

A Heloc is a open end mortgage like a credit card so its an additional trade line on credit, cannto never be used as an Asset, PITI reserve, and its a DTI killer in most cases.A heloc is also usually set up on a shorter term versus a mortgage, carries a Higher interest rate, and most carry a interest only with a prepayment penalty.

Instead of depreciating everything over 27.5 years, a cost seg study can help you take advantage of shorter depreciation schedules for certain assets, which can save you a lot on taxes upfront.

@Warren Barton  Having your property manager pay you through your LLC EIN offers better liability protection by separating personal and business assets. 

The market of bank real estate asset wholeselling for example is very closed to a select few companies that invest millions of dollars, but when you see that big names like credit suisse invested over 150 million euros last year with one local bank's properties you have to wonder why these guys are puting so many eggs in this basket. 

depends on the asset like the SS i funded for him is a profit share.. the little pink houses in the mid west I have my set fees and it usually if you look at share of profit becomes a 80/20 to 60/40  in favor of my client..

How much do you have in personal assets?

There is less demand for assets in tertiary markets.I'm not a fan of all 1 beds, but that depends upon the market.

Inflation is a godsend for anyone who owns hard assets, especially when they've taken debt.