The build-out happening in Seattle is intense and it is mirrored in Bellevue, and the light rail is connecting outlying cities for rapid access (even from Tacoma).  

Our second pool, fitness center, sand volleyball, tennis courts, shuffleboard, pickle ball, dog park & basketball are scattered throughout the property.

80% LTV exists but there are conditions that need to be met, making underwriting fairly intensive.  

(and even more interesting - doesn't share his full name with the community) has served as a warning and paved the way for some really intense scrutiny of his competition in coming months.

I am working toward supplementing my military pension when I get out in 9 years or so, so that I can do / work wherever I want.I have found that one of the hardest parts about being in real estate is not finding deals, so much as it is raising the money to buy the deals that I want to do (Buy and Hold), especially since Buy and Hold is pretty capital intensive.   

Good chance I'll take some flak for this, but here it goes...Asking me what you asked me is like the scrawny 18-year-old college freshman with bad posture walking up to the agile, lean and muscular 21-year-old college gymnast after an intense interval training session and asking him how to get in that kind of shape too.

Coach John Wooden who have won 10 NCAA national basketball championships in a 12 year period had his players focus on the process, not the result. 

@Travis Cannon This is a capital intensive business. 

Buying for appreciation is highly speculative, capital intensive and its outcome is anything but guaranteed.

I did 2oo plus loans in Detroit from 2001 to 2003 ish.. and enjoyed my time there.. then the socio demographic issues just got to intense and streets and blocks that were fine ended up being abandoned.. quite a tramatic experience for a kid from Cupertino CA... who never was raised or lived or even knew what an inner city upper east coast was all about..