Pat Lowry and Troy Stites I started a thread on the topic here: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51-tax-legal-issues-contracts-self-directed-ira/topics/73611-sdiras-and-non-recourse-loans-fact-or-fiction

Lucky Lab Pub in Multnomah Village. 6:30-9:30pm.You'll find Salem is a good buy and hold market.

A lot of those areas are just starting to get new development so you are taking a gamble but if the area does turn you will bank.Who knew that Roscoe Village, with an average sale price of $800k, was an area you could not walk alone in at night 15 years ago?  

I've got a similar project in Victorian Village and will need someone soon... 

She must not have pulled a permit when she had this built or else the village would not have allowed them to put it up where they put it up. 

The reason being they are in incorporated villages and tend to have slightly higher taxes than areas outside the incorporated village.

I'm currently looking for properties in the Logan Square, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Ukrainian Village, and West Town area.

I did notice you have investor meet-ups every month in the Village and I'll try and attend one sometime because I am nearby (in SW) and really have no excuse.

Send them to the village/city/county welfare office for emergency housing aid.  

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/.