It's a cascading host of issues that affects our focus.

We are considering LBI (risky though given any storm damage/insurance) and are also considering Grand Cascades/crystal springs.

I recommend Cascade Answering Solutions!

Using the HELOC allows you to cascade the effect because as your principal balance gets lower on the mortgage side, you can keep pulling more out from the HELOC to pay off even more principal and so on goes the cycle.I am curious if anyone has some charts or calculator to show various scenarios for these.

Not only because of the UGB and influx of so many people wanting to move to Bend, but also because of the future 4 year OSU Cascades campus.

Hey Joel Moore , check out Cascade NW Construction.

@Paul Ellis  the difference between a land split and a subdivisions in pretty much any place I have worked is the subdivision Map act come into play at 5 lots or more.4 lots are less are what typically call a short plat. and exempt from the heavier rules and regs that a subivision falls under..has to do with many different things.. including different types of traffic studies.. storm sewer, water , sewer , schools, parks ,  fee's in lui  ,, soils  etc etc@Stephen Haynes  Awe I had not heard the term perc and mantle in years thanks for that tid bit.. it used to be you could put a perc test between every 2 to 5 lots and that would suffice and or drill a few wells but not on all lots..this goes to the practice years ago in many areas of never doing any of this and creating literally thousands of parcels that can't be built on with the new codes.You see these parcels come up for tax sales all over the US.. jurisdictions these days only want to create a parcel they know can  be built onWhen Boise Cascade built the 27 mega rural subdivisions in CA.. ( Pine Mtn Lake, Lake Wildwood, Hidden VAlley and that one just south of Sac)  they were allowed to plat 3 to 5 thousand building lots with no perc's and put a water system in that maybe could handle 1/5 of the houses to start leaving these communities to have to enlarge the systems out of their own nickel in the proceeding years.. leading to all sorts of building moratoriums and folks paying taxs on lots they could not build on.. there are still hundreds if not thousands of these lots that are still non build-able because of perc requirements.

I'm looking at traditional hoods like cascade park for potential buy rehab and rent which would bring the price to $150k.

I currently have a large 6 bedroom here in Seattle that we rent out exclusively on Airbnb, and my business partner and I are looking to buy some cabins in the Cascade Mountains to use as vacation rentals as well.  

May the crazy Seattle regulators realize their over-stepping ways or at least stay on your side of the Cascades.