Listing, optimizing, customer relations, cleaning and a whole lot of other stuff are involved. i would like to connect with you to see how I can be of assistance to you.

There is a lot of stuff within 1.5 hours of Portland that pencils out decently have you looked locally at all?

All good stuff, except their offerings are much more limited than a Banker and a Broker. 

I've co-owned property with family for nearly a decade while also doing tech stuff while living in the Bay.Currently focusing my efforts on house hacking via tenants in common (aka house hacking with friends) and have also been looking in SF and Tahoe.Happy to connect sometime if you're up for it.

Those condo hoa's can do all kinds of crazy stuff to ding you - even after you buy the property. 

She eventually got a new boyfriend supposedly but I never saw him there and as far as I know he didn't stay overnight and I never saw his stuff there to worry about adding that person to the lease.

Appreciation here is likely driven by demand for established areas and school districts, which likely isn't the <$250k stuff.If finding cheaper stuff was my priority I'd probably look out of state.

Good stuff, thank you for sharing :)

Being young, you may be able to find a nice area that will allow you to BRRR your way to a sizable portfolio as LTRs and create a ton of equity and long term wealth and then use that to do even more fun stuff in your second phase of investing.But in terms of returns, I still think STRs are the way to go - even in areas that are not big vacation spots. 

Frequently I see builder's reps try to pass stuff off on buyers that is 100% not acceptable, but most buyers don't know the difference.