I am new to investing and would like to use REI as a tool in the future to help supplement my income.

Tenants have options I do not.It sounds like you are supplementing their rent already so why not fill the oil tank at your expense to protect your property then give them the boot as soon as your costs over power your emotions.

I'm hoping that someday these will help supplement an early retirement :wink:.

We're looking for good cash flow from buy and hold properties (the goal is to have passive income to supplement some of my income so I can retire from my day job when we start a family- I guess that makes me a motivated buyer :).We're having trouble building a real estate team, and any recommendations y'all have would be so helpful!

My short term goal is to supplement my income.  

I feel it’s built a good base for me to start so now I’m looking to diversify and get into some more of these higher return markets to supplement, but I personally would have never gone straight into those markets if I didn’t have a stable base first.

With that going, I was ready to invest more, but he was not, so I am working on finding actual income for my family now, instead of supplementing our college fund.

I'm totally 100% interested in cash flow.Goals are to supplement my income at the moment and eventually I'd like to get into working my properties and growing the rental empire full time while making gobs of cashflow (just being honest right?

That being said I believe you can make money in the Portland area, you just need to be extremely picky and you'll definitely want to plan on having supplemental income.

I have also seen appraisers use a calculation based on the unit's rents and the area's average gross rent multiplier as a supplement to the comps.