Plan on the frugal lifestyle and pay back your secondary funding QUICKLY.

If the property is 2 blocks from a university, in a block that is largely populated by students... rent rates will likely reflect student lifestyles.

I have actually posted here prior to, but got caught up in the 9-5 family lifestyle ...

Quick Background: I've been fairly successful in other areas of life and recently determined that moving towards passive income is the best way to achieve my financial/lifestyle goals.- I currently have 2 SFH properties- I have an LLC formed, but currently don't have any properties under it.

Sadly, living in Manhattan and California all my early working years and through my 20's (ridiculous rents and millennial lifestyle...) has left me with little opportunity to save, let alone save anything remotely close enough to a downpayment in areas where studios and 1 bdrms start at well over half a million dollars...This being said, I'm very interested in learning as much as I can about real estate (especially on the smaller scale - such as SFH and perhaps duplexes...).

Well many people Love PDX for the life style , Metro and cities have artificially crimped supply.. and that is not changing anytime soon.

While there were many factors in moving to Salt Lake (professional, personal, lifestyle, etc.), one large reason was for the “underratedness” we see in the city and the opportunity for entering into REI.

Yeah the moving every 3 months fits into my current lifestyle well and I have plans in motion outside of real estate to develop a community in each location. 

Even if they could, lifestyles, at least for now, do not make it a competitive option, at least at historical price levels. 

And  there are other factors at play... like taxes, comfort with leverage, your 'lifestyle', along with a substantial number of other variables inherent in investing that impact our decisions.... all topics covered on countless other threads in BP Nation.