Ultimately, I'd like to retire from my current job in 2-3 years and do investing full time. 

@Keith Fowler - Don't quit your job.  

At this moment, I have a 9 to 5 job but I can cover for you after 6 pm during the week and all day weekends. 

According to Mike Scott of Dupre + Scott Apartment Advisors, Seattle “will add 125,500 jobs between now and the end of 2020.”

After a week or two of him not getting on site, it basically boiled down to him not going to get the job done.

Great job getting started early.

I have/do rent to two tenants who have had criminal backgrounds.First tenant was in a transition program for an extensive period of time (years); had a job working in maintenance at a local hotel which he faithfully rode his bike to (a distance of a good number of miles) because, of course, he was not allowed a car.  

Heres what i did, and i could have took the long way and i havent had any deals yet but ill break down my trial and error and the method i feel will work best for me.first, i searched zillow for homes that are selling for low cost, found the owners and mailed yellow letters of course-the problem with this is, a lot of these homes still have loans on them and probably bank owned already, the owner still lives there, theres already a realtor on the job, just way too many obstacles, i dont expect to get any calls from those letters but you have to start somewhere.next, i started searching on auction sites for homes that did not go up for auction yet or the auction expired-again, the problem with this is the homes are 9/10 bank owned. while some of them are foreclosures theres still extra loops to jump through.I considered buying lists of vacant homes and stuff but i am the most frugal person you will ever meet lol, its not that i cant afford to buy a list, its just that i know theres a different way and plus whoever made those list had to have someone else generating that list for them.

I left my FT job and needed (fairly) quick income.

I don't think I'll make this months as I'll be on travel for my day job but I'll look for others to attend.