I've been living in WA State for a year and have been learning my local market (I live about 45 min northwest of Tacoma on the Kitsap peninsula) while saving to buy my first property.The high home prices and high interest rates are making it challenging to find good deals.

The prices I am being quoted are outrageously high.

Don't try to prop up poor performers by divesting good performers.

This is a great strategy for high income earners as they can purchase a short-term rental get a cost segregation and slam a huge loss through to offset current years income. 

Others may disagree, but I would highly recommend paying off all of our debt and increasing your savings rate before investing. 

As we all know, interest rates have been very high these past years (7.5%-7.7%), and there are rumors that the FED are looking to cut the interest rates in 2024.

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

For the last 5 years, I have been self-performing live-in flips with my wife and two young children.

I built high-end custom modular (e.g. stick built in a factory and shipped) for a significantly cheaper cost per sq foot than it would have cost to build with a local builder.

Greetings I wanted to know how landlords feel about families affected by the high rent hikes of 2016 in Portland, Or?