HELOC funds can make it a cash purchase, or those HELOC funds can be a big fat 25% down payment paired with a traditional mortgage for 75%.

Times will be tough, time to trim the fat.

The AirBNB market there has been saturated in recent years, and there are big differences from one HOA to another.Hope this helps!

An area with a lot of new homes will be a benefit buying as mentioned above to drive down price, but it also may mean some saturation for renting or selling later on. 

Yeah, owning a brewery in one of the most saturated markets in the country has been nothing but a cake walk!

They spend 11 minutes listening to conversations about text messages, "he said", "The place looked worse when I moved in", "My dog didn't mean to chew up the molding", "The neighbor called me fat", "That carpet was nasty", "My mom was sick so I couldn't pay because her dog needed attention", "He said the grass was soft".

The market is saturated with people trying to invest and that has brought out a lot who are trying to wholesale.  

I joined Bigger Pockets about four months ago, hoping to be able to network and meet some people, but the site is so expansive and saturated with information... it's a wonderful resource, and the tools are great, but it's definitely a chore, at least it has been for me, to make any connections.I just signed up for Debbie DeBerry's group (I know, it's a lot), and I have to tell you--the amount of personalized support I already feel like I have access to--it's a game-changer for me.

Unfortunately it was all a big fat lie..

I'm concerned that given how insane / saturated the real estate market is around here, there is almost no such thing good deal in Seattle / Edmonds.B) Wait and see if values drop, then potentially buy on the dip (we have been waiting for a year to move - not crazy about this option since it involves waiting another year, and maybe being wrong about the downturn).C) Tell my wife to suck it up, sell our house in Lynnwood so we can leverage that capital for REI as well, then rent somewhere in Seattle or Edmonds for our primary residence.