Tacoma has some of the lowest priced rental properties in the greater Seattle area ( within 60 mins of driving).

For example 12 S Wendy Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA has definitely a market value over 600k.

I listen to them when I am driving to work, at the gym, working in the garden.

@Edwin Fisher  have you ever owned this asset class before .. do you know what your getting into.. can you drive there in an hour or less. if you don't live there I think over time you will find the property right back in the same shape it is now..

Apparently running-up the water bill is a common "revenge on landlord" strategy there.He was angry with us because we expected him to move his vehicle for snow removal and had fined him after several warnings (our policy is the tenant pays for the call-back to have the plough service return to clear the drive).

UPS Store) the owner of the Fax machine can (depending on the machine age and device settings) view your document, which will be on the hard drive.

It is only 18 minutes drive from my house which is very important for me.

But like Brandon and those guys say on the podcast, there is probably a market within an hour drive that does make sense.

If you're in Oviedo, pick a few neighborhoods, and start walking or driving them and take down the addresses of any distressed looking properties you see.  

neither myself or my wife are working because of her health and my circumstances have taken me out of my normal occupation of driving truck, so at this time i only work part time and have a lot of time to learn what i can to start investing....