Your attitude in this thread leaves little to be desired and reflects poorly on you.I fully agree with you that in sub2 and any other real estate transaction, there exists unscrupulous characters who belong in a 5X9 cell and not out on the streets taking advantage of the misinformed, unsuspecting, or ignorant.

Just think how many times you get frustrated with hotel wifi or cant get signal with your cell phone, you become the customer service rep for the internet company.

As someone who unexpectedly dealt with breast cancer (I'm in my 40s and have no family history), I can tell you that just one single dose of chemo treatment is billed at thousands of dollars. 

Originally posted by @Jim Spatzenfeld:@James HamlingYeah, construction costs have gone through the roof.Republicans scared away cheap Mexican workers with their wall that Mexico paid for.Democrats added new building codes to make homes even more unaffordable, like here in CA all new homes must have Solar cells, and not just a couple, it must be enough to make the house net-zero (produce as much as the house uses), as well as many other new code to make sure only millionaires will be left to buy a new house here.Lumber more than doubled in the last two month. 7/16 OSB (plywood) was always $8-$10 per sheet, now its $27 at Home Depot. 

Think utility bills, cell phone bills, and the like.

Call them from a cell phone so you can take a picture showing the date/time/length of call.  

Last statistic I read is we are taking in about 60 people a day to portland. you then look at your major employers, Amazon is building or it might be done a fulfillment center, Nike has said they want to double in size and have committed to a number of new employees in there tax incentive, intel is up in the air, they are kind of struggling since they missed out on the cell phone manufacturing, I am not sure what the hospital is doing out there.

@Nicolas Celle just in general, buyers market (where there are many properties for sale and not enough buyers) just tells you the location is not as desirable.