hitting 1/3 of the people in a metro market will likely have a poor return.

I'm interested in the Portland/Seattle metro areas - is the market relevant to what cap rate a bank will use for valuation?

This group has been meeting for years and attracts attendees from all over Columbus Metro. 

I'm a recent 24 yr old college graduate working isn't Information Technology field. I'm coming into this space with no experience whatsoever but ready to soak up knowledge.

I see the real estate investing area as an...

One of the apts was a 2 level apt, but that did not conform to the Certificate of Occupancy that I later pulled from the Buildings Dept.After I took possession of the building, I immediately threw together a kitchen on the floor which was missing one in the 2 level duplex apartment.Then I called for a re-appraisal in order to take out a second loan on the property.The results of the 2nd appraisal was $400k more because it had to Comp against 4 Family Buildings versus 3 Family Buildings.When you have enough experience, at least in large Metro areas like mine, and get to really know what goes on, you start to know that even things like Appraisal Comps are inaccurate.This wasn't the first time it had happened as well.Other cases you will find that an appraiser Failed to know that a Comp was sold to a relative, which should have been throw out.There are a lot of these kinds of inaccuracies.HOWEVER, if you can start to understand how Appraisals are done, you should start to learn about the inaccuracies and take complete advantage of it like I did above.Appraisals also contains 2 other analysis other than just Sales Comps.

This group has been meeting for years and attracts attendees from all over Columbus Metro.

My land values are only 3% where I have half my portfolio 30 mins away and 10% here in my 'metro' area lol.  

Yes I understand public perception.. in the mid 90S  I owned a logging company  ( raped the forests)Was developing subdivision in highly charged local environments  ( big bad developer) and of course the one most like I was for years the number one or two buyer of court house foreclosures in my PDZX metro area.. ( kicking those poor folks out of the home they just lost because of the big bad bank)  and of course I owned a fairly sizable HML company  35 mil plus) so we were loan sharks on top of it...

Compared to other major metro areas, our region has an incredibly tiny amount of them.

I've found even when they are "far" away Atlanta suburbs are still easy enough to get to for me to do deals anywhere in the metro where the numbers work.