I studied finance (MS & BS), and it's taught me a TON about real estate, as i do all the financing/books for our business, which is an integral part.    

The concepts of home and hearth form a deep, integral part of human psychology.

Never risk your integrity to make a sale, one deal will never make you rich, but losing your reputation and integrity will probably leave you broke. 3.)

Yes, meanwhile they justify exploitative sales tactics and build backwards work cultures where loyalty is valued over good communication skills, integrity, and merit. 

Super great guy, super high integrity team!

You need to incentivize them to mentor you or partner with you, either you work pro bono for them or bring something to the table of value.To your comment about "shady" or dishonest, I would encourage to you be as honest and forthcoming as possible, I don't know about you but I got into real estate because I wanted to do something meaningful, profitable for my family's benefit, I wanted to benefit from my level of effort rather than giving it to someone else, and most of all I wanted to make the world a better place by improving whatever it is I am working on; I want to be able to lay my head on the pillow at night knowing I did everything I could today to move forward in a positive direction and did so with integrity in order to prevent any form of regret. 

All needed extensive renovations but did have some positive features such as newer roofs, furnaces, and solid structural integrity.

Property is already in closing at Integrity Title.

Having the whole thing vertically integrated is worth a lot... 

If you want to keep your investments in the Portland area I can recommend some people with high levels of integrity to connect with.