Great city to invest for the long term with that kind of appreciation, low property tax rates, amenities, strong rental rates, etc  

I visited Oregon's list of pre-license educators and there is a long list. https://www.oregon.gov/CCB/licensing/Pages/list-pr...  

I have a kind of an odd questions for fellow landlords or if anyone is in the insurance side.Last year when Irma hit South Florida, I suffered quite a bit of damages on a number of my rental.A particular one is a multi family building - I had fence damages, tree branch fell on roof, poked a hole through the roof, through the ceiling, debris everywhere inside, outside...so I filed a claim to my windstorm insurance carrier.I was lucky that the apartment the branch went through, was vacant at the time. 

I had bought 40 some houses before I bought any kind of multi family.

Everyone we have networked with says we must have skin in the game to do any kind of joint ventures/learn from them or even join a team, which we would love to do, however we basically gave our life savings to a family member to deal with a health battle.

What kind of research do you do to avoid buying property in an area that might be difficult to rent?

It's relatively close to everything and is pretty much smack dab in the middle of the areas you've visited.Each area you mentioned has different features as I'm sure you noticed when visiting. 

It kind of melted and is all wavy looking.

Figure out what kind of returns you want and then start messing around in the BP calculators.

Also visiting that market to walk the streets and talk to residents and proprietors (think restaurant owners, gas station attendants and Uber drivers) often times they can tell you something in 5 minutes that you could never glean from hours of research.Cheers