I have a theory that these areas could do well over the years as many boomers/tech folks from the greater Seattle area retire and migrate to the Peninsula for more space and nature and cheaper housing etc. 

Hi @Dennis NikolaevI sold my 8 condos one at a time here in San Diego and 1031 exchanged my way to financial freedom and am retiring from my 20 yr teaching job this summer and am financially free.  

People look after the property when they are getting a good deal.At some point we will sell as we are now retired.

I am looking to retire from the Marines in about a year and a half and settle in the area. 

(And hopefully a “rental” in Hawaii, or the USVI, or somewhere you always wanted to retire.)

Here I am but I was not sure how to title this or if I picked the best forum category for my question but here it is.I heard from someone that the local property management companies know people who are retiring from rental business and thinking about selling their properties.

Make retirement priority in this order, company match, Roth, traditional until you have 15% gross income budgeted for this. 

I don’t have any retirement so I was considering opening either a self directed IRA or Solo 401k.

What is Roth IRAIt is not some other kind of retirement account.

We do have a decent amount of cash put aside in savings that we could put towards new flooring and/or some other fixes in a rental, we each have a retirement fund, and we do not touch the income that our first rental has produced unless it is something specifically needed for that property, so that is building up slowly, but nicely.