•Find out who actually makes decisions—tenant approvals, renewals, evictions.

I am slowly going crazy with how expensive Massachusetts is and I am leaning towards looking at cheaper foreclosure properties.I understand there is some risk to this but I am beginning to think this is the only option I will have because of how fast the market is growing.Thank you for any insight you may have!

Cleveland is another solid option.

Not saying you shouldn’t move forward, just that all options should be on the table!  

I’m going to talk to them today about the complaints that I am getting, but if this pursues, what exactly are my options in this situation? 

You should have, or you should create an amortization table that shows the actual interest paid on the $650k mortgage for the first 6 months while you lived there.

I think the economy has a number of diverse employment options, lower prices than King County while still being within driving distance.  

I would be very careful with a lot of course or guru in general right especially a price tag like that what I would always recommend reading the contract and see who is the person more in favor and if its not you then dont sign up very rare to see someone actually benefit from a course.

City proper has been on 5 year bear market completely unrelated to anything political, the suburbs have been adding inventory since the summer but are still very low but any measure and have actually gotten tighter the last few month, while I am open to the idea these cuts could eventually have some effect on the market, about 20% of the dc area is federal employees, let’s say the federal government cut the work force 25% which would be huge, that’s 5% of the population, but a good number of those people are either two income households where one person works in the private and/or the person being laid can go get a similar job in the provide sector l, the percentage of households who would be forced to sell thier house over this is likely in very low single digits.

If you plan to invest in multiple states or require advanced asset protection, consult a CPA or attorney to explore options like a holding company structure.