However, having education (and not just word of mouth but rather proof on paper; ex. a diploma) will help you get that foot in the door at a faster and easier pace.

Mapleton Fall Creek has been rehabbed and gentrified at a stunning pace over the last few years, and East Fall Creek was in better shape to start with, I think, and has also come up. 

Yep - Assuming there's not the up-sell, membership and secondary agendas of so many other REIA's (which knowing you, there won't be...) 

In an effort to advance their agenda, many politicians really don't give a damn what the law may be, they only want the result, and they know that most of the time they will not be sued.

If you want, we can share our house meeting agenda and sample chore charts, just let us know.

Right now I feel like I am bombarded with so many information, some conflicting, and do not know how to make deals the right way in efficient fast pace matter.I want to wholesale first to gain enough capital to hold rental properties for passive income.

That top end dictates and caps what I can charge for my rentals and puts some downward pressure on rents across the whole metro area.But I think that's temporary and that on the whole, the PDX metro area is still facing a housing shortage and here's why...New construction permits are far out-paced by the influx of people to the Portland Metro area.

College Park, where the city owns most of a few city blocks) and there is usually a bigger agenda at work.

Fyi I'm participating on a panel discussion on  the Saturday agenda in the morning, going to discuss buying distressed debt in a self directed IRA

Everyone has their own agenda and could care less about you with the exception they the HML gets his money back and earns a fat profit from his short-term nearly illegal loan.