However now, if you are a little light in the wallet, I'd concentrate on the fix and flip properties.  

What growing up in Portland taught me about real estate is some places end up really rebounding through concentrated efforts to revitalize an area.

The returns are worse than in crowdfunding and you have concentration of local economy risk, however I like the risk reward there better than crowdfunding.  

One thing you may do though is try to follow sales that are not northwest trustee's or other bid trustee services concentrate on the ones that are done by small attorney firms. sometimes those fly under the radar.But I got out of this back in 07 08 and rolled into HML made better returns with the capital than I did in the foreclosure bizz in PDX.. way to much competition and that was right went vestus fairplay and the like came on the scene.

Happy to jump on the phone as this is a loaded question.I don't know exactly what % of rentals are seasonal as a number of the total, but I am pretty familiar with the 55+ areas since I'm literally surrounded by them on 3 sides of my neighborhood and my portion of Mesa has the highest concentration of 55+ neighborhoods I believe in the whole valley.

If these are 19 pads that have been rented for 15 years, that is pretty good if any majority concentration of those 19 pads has a good long term rent to it, you are doing pretty good.You will want to look at the rent roll and get an idea of what sort of non payment or late payment risk you are getting into as well.

Gary suggested that if you need to increase net operating income (NOI), consider raising the rent by $15 for the unit type performing exceptionally well.Increasing Occupancy: In cases where increasing occupancy is the priority, Gary suggested concentrating on the unit type with the highest vacancy rate.

I think the biggerpockets meetup would be more concentrated on BP blogs and content.

I doubt investors at the level of investment we discuss on BP will not see much of anything from these international concerns.I have not read the requirements and I doubt I will as I understand that liquidity issues has more to do with loan concentrations than individual loan underwriting especially in residential lending.There is usually a cut off for the applicability of reserves for state chartered banks and different than national banks.

I have been involved since November 2015 and I've been concentrating on education.