Edit- I know you have a label for real estate agents, but given the nature of the site, doesn't the term broker also elicit thoughts of an agent or is it just me?

But the house will not be staged.I'm trying to just choose one to stay whinin the budget and still make the house look beautiful to sell.

The nature of tenant/landlord laws were scaring me.

I always drive through the old towns here reallllly slow, making people behind me angry, but I can help but examine the old houses and how beautiful they make the area.

Folks are naturally skeptical of strangers on the internet.

The best wholesale deal I've come across so far (a house for 7k that needed about 30k-40k of work) still wasn't all that great when analyzed (would only rent for about $500-$550) and I was advised to stay away due to the more complex nature of it, at least as my first deal.If I can hook up with someone in another market that gives me a better purchase price to rent ratio, and make the requisite connections to do deals there, from acquisition, to rehab, to lending, to property management, why not?

Even clothes dryers up there run on natural gas.  

Some sort of entity is probably also in order to centralize your legal and financial interests.Are you planning to simply rent something out or move in to a multiunit situation or something of that nature?

@Dave Foster ONE is beautiful, love Vinoy Park.

Our local Natural Gas Utility offers this:"Reduced-cost weatherizationAdditionally, Energy Trust of Oregon now offers Savings Within Reach to NW Natural customers with household incomes up to 120 percent of the state median income (SMI).