As a real estate broker, I tend to see activity slow down in the late fall and winter months. 

Although most cities and counties have implemented STR rules or restrictions, in comparison to other regions active and licensable vacation rentals in Oregon are still very acquirable.

Try not to adversely affect neighbors with noise or activity.

It sounds like you won't have any trouble qualifying..In Oregon there are some tenant laws that can restrict active CAP rates, but those with current market rents (or that can attain them near term) can approach double digit return rates.

How many active buyers/sellers is more of a short-term impact, just like interest rates and other things and leading to annual fluctuations.

@V.G Jason 40% of the agents in the whole industry is active, only 20% of the agents closed deals in the last 3 months. 0.005% is an accurate figure for builder agents

Also, how active/passive you want to be.

Last night I went into my spare guest bathroom for something to discover an active leak that I suspect was caused by the tenants heating guy shutting down the system, flushing it, and restarting it.

You can also find off-market assumable loan opportunities by soliciting foreclosures or cross referencing your VA, FHA, USDA list with active listing in your current market.I hope this helps! 

So we side hustled and earned a few promotions and changed jobs (and locations - Dallas, Austin, Nashville) a few times to boost our earnings to fast track us to our first ever investment.