He happens to be in the .5% of folks here in terms of what he knows and what he's done.

I have looked on and off at the city and it seems to be heavily skewed to SFR, at least in term of supply.

Hey @Cory Gardner welcome to the site and you seem to have a good plan in terms of educating yourself in real estate. 

Think in terms of risk/reward.

You could make the difference on that spread, but since seller-financing tends to have more potential for flexibility in terms, I could see that you could get a property.

A high paying W-2 really doesn't mean that much in terms of real wealth.  

Many neighborhoods have restrictions in terms of the size and style of home that can be built in that community.  

Others who are in more of an acquisition mode may chime in with better in-the-trenches info on this.Tacoma is very interesting to me in terms of the numbers, and is likely where I will be shifting any future SFR investments, but admittedly I have no experience there; neighborhood matters perhaps much more than in Seattle.Someone replied to you from Bremerton on the Kitsap peninsula; another area that could be interesting (the one hour commute by ferry to downtown Seattle is gorgeous), but the constraint of ferry-only access from Seattle has always stopped me. 

In terms of investing while flying, how it can be structured is completely dependent on what kind of investing you want to do!

The building's foundation and structure as a whole is solid, however there is much to be done in terms of TLC.