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. 

Find a professional you can work with to supplement what you know, much like finding an attorney for a particular type of case within a certain jurisdiction.

So, they aren't supplementing the market as buyers.So, when the boom ends but you still need to plan for retirement I would buy cash flowing or long term appreciating assets any day!

I was a police officer here for 18 years, doing investing on the side to supplement my future pension, but recently things have really started taking off and it overtook my full time job, both in time and pay, so I resigned and am now doing full time investing.My main strategies have been holding rentals, and more recently flips (with very extensive rehabs).

Because of that, I'm thinking that I need to supplement my income in the short term.

Loan assumptions with supplemental debt are becoming even more appealing.