Anyone willing to do the legwork can find the money if they have the deal and I am firmly in line with her strategy.ps Lee, I saw the short term rental you have in Mammoth, I used to go snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain all the time.

A lot of newcomers might stay in the Eastside for their first six months to a year and later discover that it's too boring for them.Since you are from the Bay and I have lived in the Bay before, I will make the following analogies:Seattle = SF (aka the City)Eastside = San Jose and Surrounding Area (aka the Valley)However, it's easier to commute from Seattle to Redmond than from SF to Mountain View or Santa Clara.  

Living so close to the mountains, investing in a property has always been on my mind.

We have an A frame in the mountains and it does very well.

You might try one of these: Bank of West, BNP Paribas, BB&T, Figure, Mountain America CU, Quorum FCU, WAFD Bank, US Bank. 

I am still coming down from the "Rocky Mountain" high and excitement this event has left me in!

I am also looking at hiring a buyers rep for my area stretching from Bakersfield to Ventura up through magic mountain to North Hollywood.

It is a good opportunity to ask questions face to face in a casual atmosphere.

My boyfriend had hinted at how much know-how I had to learn before I could even be remotely successful, and haven taken some time to browse through the blogs, posts, forum on BiggerPockets i now know that there's a MOUNTAIN of knowledge I need to absorb.

We've got about 12 rentals in our IRA and do 4-6 buys per year and of course deposit all those expenses and rent checks every month.We will move to a different custodian as soon as we find a custodian that can close a purchase efficiently and fast and allows us to use their website to scan rent checks like most banks these days.We've had deposit errors on the July rent deposits and we are now realizing that we need to scan the rent checks, scan the deposit slips etc etc creating a mountain of work each month to back up the what if scenario of the original check gets lost in the mail or they don't key the deposit correctly on their side as has happened this month.Our #1 need of a new custodian is:- scan checks to deposit via their website.