I just want to get into the industry and meet the people who are currently working in it or have a lot of experience in real estate.

Average in Mitchell is $375-$775 highest renting unit is $850

In general, a strong agent will get the average seller 11-18% more than if they sell FSBO in a shorter amount of time. 

I truly believe that Real Estste is the best chance that an average person such as my self has to building wealth.9 out of 10 Businesses fail in the 1st year & 9 out of those 10 that made it fail in 5 years!

This is what I come up with from 3 million housing units being sold on the average of every 7 years. 

I just read this blog post https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/places-invest-real-estate in which 6 markets were scored across a few categories:- median rent: median value- rent to income- taxes to value- insurance to value- average appreciation- unemployment- crime- population growthA few people commented afterwards and highlight job diversity, % renters, and % vacancies are also important.As far as sites people use, I’ve only heard of city data but I’m not very familiar with that site.

If you were going to take your $150K and invest in another market that cashflows better on average than Bellingham then it might be worthwhile to look into some possibilities. 

 $2,000 is average.2.  

For those of us that do not know that area, we need to know your distance or how long the average drive is? 

I know people brand new to the industry that are great and 30 year veterans who are awful.