With proximity to the Freeway, University Of Washington - Tacoma, and Downtown (which has over $1Bn of projects permitted for the next 5 years - including a Grocery Anchored Retail center) If you can find a value add play in Hilltop I wouldn't sleep on it.

Clarksville area seems to be great for longer-term plays right now just because you can acquire for so cheap, but for the flips you may want to consider moving closer to the city. 

Obviously run the numbers on the whole package and each individually, but sliding the purchase prices around on a few to play with LTV on financed properties would let you stretch your capital and pre-approved amount further.

I have been pivoting from value to cash flow plays (while always adding value).If we are not selling properties, it is the same as buying them at today's prices (excluding the impact of mortgage rate changes). 

From my prospective, economy of scale plays a huge role in my decision making and hence I chose commercial real estate (for example, multifamily versus single family).

Maybe if you had some kind of value ad play... but buying brand new and hoping values and rents go up in the Bay Area seems like a bad strategy to me.

In my understanding, the barrier to entry in the NYC market is so high and the market itself is mostly an appreciation play, making young people like me who just started out without much experience and capital almost unable to participate.

Housing affordability is a major issue and it's going to need to be an all of the above solution with manufactured homes definitely playing a major role.

While they're being rehabbed they usually have unpleasant nicknames - The Roach Motel (full of dead ones), The Dog House (smelled like wet dog inside), the Crack Shack (found an old crack pipe someone left in the electrical box)...Once they're all prettied up and rented we just go by the street name, Columbia Ave., Drexel Dr., etc.  

In my spare time, I watch and play futbol(soccer), listen to live music and read books.I will like to connect with fellow investors, who can I can learn a lot from.