I am hoping it will be just as easy and fruitful with the Maine house.

Are there ways I can juice up the Cap rate in the first 6 months.

The last low-hanging Seattle-centric REI fruit left is Snohomish county, so we'll be growing even faster for years to come.

great stuff @Jalen Carethers .a smaller list (mailed more consistently)could be more fruitful

There's lower hanging fruit out there.

The average home owner is putting 3.5% down on their property which is a huge amount of leverage which is giving a huge amount of juice to their returns.Also just look up average net worth of homeowners vs renters and the discussion becomes an  obvious moot point.As @Elizabeth Colegrove points out, owning in major metropolitan areas with high amounts of appreciation is even more beneficial.

In other words, it really got my r.e. juices flowing!!  

We're hungry, we're laser-focused, but, most importantly, we're determined to create a financially and spiritually fruitful future for ourselves and our family.I, along with my brother, have been listening and reading BP posts for the last several months, doing our own research, reading general/real estate investment books, and meeting incredible people that have guided us along this journey.

I look forward to plenty of fruitful dialogue and accessing the wealth of information participants on this site possess. 

Good luck wth your search in MI and I hope it is fruitful, if not at least come out and enjoy a Michigan summer on a freshwater lake.