A great place to learn more about WA real estate investing and finding deals and connections is our local REIA - https://www.reapsweb.com and checking out some of our Zoom meetings if you can.There's some great pages on Facebook that you can find deals from other investors, and if you're looking for turnkey there's always the MLS (Zillow, Redfin, etc will get you access to those).If you want a specific search setup, reach out and I can get that started based on the criteria you're looking for too.As someone that moved up from CA a few years ago, I was curious why you're looking at WA instead of other long-distance locations?

The investments should be chosen based on increased wealth, so that an investment in land, providing no income, but likely to triple in value in 24 months, would be chosen over a office building throwing off 12% income, but unlikely to increase in value.  

(When I was in my 20's - I am now 77 years old, I did a ton of equity based foreclosures.) 6. offer to partner with the sale and liquidation of the property for a fee or equity position.Understand that as a foreclosure buyer - you need to first try to solve the owners problem  by giving suggestions to him - how can you help him, what suggestions can you give that will help him out.

This is not specific legal advice, just my opinion based on estate planning/asset protection background.  

I'm based in FL, so that's where we to the most of our business business.

Any pointers on who to avoid would also be helpful ;) Obviously this is one of the pieces that can make or break the performance of a deal, so I’m trying to cover all my bases as much as possible

You are pre-approved based on your status and employment so if nothing changes, you are good to go.

Being cloud based has the perk of tons of freedom and less time constraints for meetings and trainings (but with the advantage of them being there every day if you want them!).

This tenant has no reason to not pay based on any service requests, as I’ve always resolved issues same day.

Based on your goals, experience level, and my assumption that high earning w-2s tend to be demanding of your time, I actually think that there are better ways for you to offset your w-2 income.