UNITED STATES TREASURY BEGINS CRACK DOWN ON MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH HIGH END RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE In an effort to combat money laundering in the real estate sector, The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen), a bureau of The United States Treasury Department, has issued Geographic Targeting Orders (GTO) that will temporarily require title insurance companies to identify the names and social security numbers of the natural persons behind LLC's and other opaque structures that are used as shell companies to purchase high end residential real estate.Reporting will be required on "All Cash" purchases of residential properties that exceed $3,000,000 in Manhattan and $1,000,000 in Miami-Dade County.

With a strong tech sector, plenty of foreign investments, and a diverse industry overall, demand for the city of Seattle is likely to be second to none in 2016.Seattle has been in a solid upward trend since 2012 and is likely to continue its ascent.

And then transitioning my portfolio towards the commercial sector.  

But once you get into 5+ units, it becomes a different game so be prepared to spend some considerable time learning the apartment sector before getting into a deal (there are a ton of great resources available).

For example, my team-33 Zen Lane- specializes in many different areas of real estate investing and we have different agents who specialize in different sectors so you want to make sure your agent knows your area of interest very well. 

I passed my first time out because of all the studying and sacrifice of family time and leisure.

That along with a solid cash fund I already mentioned for the unexpected, will be the cornerstone of our rentier life of leisure.

Digest that with the pros and cons at your leisure. 

The sector is already plague enough with issues, inventory levels, title clouds, marketing ideologies, negative people, bad advice, yada yada.

Like others have mentioned area is already attracting a bunch of companies from many different industry sectors.