Then break down the 5 year, 10 year plan into shorter, measurable, realistic steps. 

I'd recommend you pick up "what every real estate investor needs to know about cash flow...and 36 other key financial measures", by Frank Gallinelli.

One of them is the co-mingling of funds between personal and business accounts and other various accounting measures.

Debt service coverage ratios are usually used on income producing properties to measure the property and its value 

If forced to “legalize” it with permitting, either ask if they have “prescriptive measures” for deck framing you can review and see if it matches, or hire a Str Eng to investigate and draft a plan that matches the deck + any retrofitting they feel is necessary.

They are successful because they take calculated, measured risks.You made sweeping generalizations about BP members.

Much higher cap rates if you use that as a measuring stick on SFR.

now city of Portland has a quasi rent control measure but the rest of Oregon is not much different than any other market and its not like CA for sure.

More than anything else, I'd look for local people who had achieved a measure of success in real estate locally and see if I could also do what they were doing, or at least if there were things I could learn from them.

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