I put my personal cell phone on all of the Google Ads so when someone called in, my phone rang.

They are local, respond to any emails/questions right away and I even have the cell number of the VP of lending, hell he's even come out to the projects I'm working on.

Trim away as much fat as possible (like trading down in automobile if at all possible), stop dumping money into the 401k for a while, and try combining your desires to buy your own place and invest in real estate by "house hacking," where you live in one of the units of a multiplex while renting the others.

What could make a deadbeat hillbilly happier that sitting on their fat butt; smoking a cigarette; working on a case of Bud; all of the while watching their 120 inch big screen TV - ALL PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS?

Think utility bills, cell phone bills, and the like.

I would recommend one LLC per property or using something like a series LLC where you can place the properties into individual child cells to minimie liability. .

Well for starters I stopped using my cell phone number on the closing paperwork many years ago.

A1 would be your cash outflow at acquisition, then the nine cells in B1 to J1 would be your first 9 years of cash flow.

Last statistic I read is we are taking in about 60 people a day to portland. you then look at your major employers, Amazon is building or it might be done a fulfillment center, Nike has said they want to double in size and have committed to a number of new employees in there tax incentive, intel is up in the air, they are kind of struggling since they missed out on the cell phone manufacturing, I am not sure what the hospital is doing out there.

@Nicolas Celle just in general, buyers market (where there are many properties for sale and not enough buyers) just tells you the location is not as desirable.