The flipping heat has passed and now on the down trend while facing inflation and extreme low rental yield made me feel to get out of this country.

I would also check the rural areas and stay away from Portland as prices are too inflated.

then try seller financing, 1031 if your trading up or changing asset classes (residential to commercial or smaller SFR to larger one) 10 years from now 250k may be a good deal for an investor.. depends on inflation, appreciation and location. 1. if you sell you will get hit with the tax liability the year you sell it.2. 1031 to defer taxes3. seller financing to give you cash flow and spread out tax liability (depreciation and capital gains taxes)4. don't sell. don't ever sell ;)

@Christina Hall, my guess is that you're tax bill is inflated because your business model in 2015 lent itself to ordinary income + self employment tax.  

Anyone saying otherwise is just trying to artificially inflate their NOI.

Remember owner finance can be great WHEN you are not getting heavily inflated pricing or onerous terms from a seller to do it.

The primary difference is in one case the tenants pay the principal on the mortgage in the other the investor pays the principal up front and the tenants pay back the investor.Throwing cash at a property has a cost that can not simply be ignored to artificially inflate cash flow.

If the rent has not been raised in years and the current lease does not disallow it, you could explain the need to raise the rents due to inflation and other factors and wait to do the remodeling when someone moves out, and still increase the rent in the interim.

Makes sense with the inflation of prices and possible overvalue.Thanks for the reply @Samantha Reeves it was one your articles I found listing the requirements, but I think there was also mention of appraiser discretion which led to my question.  

Just to give you an idea of how inflated pricing is, we paid $124k for a 4 bed, 2 bath, 1820 sf, detached 2 car garage, bi level home in 2014.