If you plan to buy a turn key rental and use the money as your down payment, then I would refinance so you don't get stuck with variable interest in this environment of rising rates.

There are almost no homes under $300K.Has anyone had success in this type of environment? 

You'll find that many are happy to offer some input as an act of goodwill.The interest rate environment and local market condition doesn't really make estimating ARV harder or easier. 

Quickly changes sales environment in April/May-2022.

Find someone you trust and work with them.p.s. a February appraisal is irrelevant in today's environment in Seattle. 

Use calculators here and other online spreadsheets.You can negotiate your interest rate, term (length of loan) and down payment -- Which can all be extremely advantageous in the current economic environment.

Good article Jorge, the person who can take a wholistic approach to an investor's portfolio and offered a well balanced mix of risk and reward has a much better chance of breaking through to investors in this environment

I doubt it, as a Richmond City resident and taxpayer I think the city has much, much bigger fish to fry.

I've built a global referral business and do (well, did prior to Covid) a lot of cross-border business with our neighbors in Canada.I'm originally from Anchorage, Alaska; I love to ski, boat, fish and crab in the San Juan Islands, I have a huge passion for travel, my husband is from the Netherlands, we travel to Europe as often as we can. 

I would also add that adding a Class A share with limited exposure to upside but a preferential place in the capital stack is very attractive for your retired/soon to be retired folks who no longer see fixed income/bonds as an option in this interest rate environment.