You will have to use your own history and tailored projections to determine what your property is doing.Good luck with financial planners  ;)   I've only met one that does RE investing, and she can't really help her clients with that.

People have been grabbing them up since they put in the new rail system by the schools. 

The nurse that makes 90k a year..or the high school teacher that cracks 100k thinks they are middle class.

I've heard 2 schools of thought - investors agree to lend on the ARV and not the credit/investment of the assigner, buyer, etc and from researching other areas, there seems to be a need for good credit scores and coming to the table with a portion of the investment.  

Multiple Offers above asking price are quite common, especially for clean, move in ready homes located in good school districts. 

I would sell it and take your TAX FREE  profit then shop around PDX and buy something else ... since your moving to another owner occ that I think you said you inherited.lock in the gain now thereby saving 50k or so in tax.buy a nicer bigger rental type property.. you can now buy a small  multi in pdx or close in. cash flow will be greater.that's one school of thought.I know personally the tax free sale of my personal resi's over the years have netted me far more than cash flow would ever have. by probably 20X...

If you have the ability to do transaction history searches you can tell these low-price sales are arms-length transfers.

Prequalifing the tenants is key. ( time on current job and rental history) Recoup investment in 2.5 years, $950/mo

I'm beginning to find that our problem is more with the fact that we are both fresh out of college (and i'm still in grad school) and she's still looking for a fulfilling job.

The properties are now worth 850k and 1.05m a little over a year after I sold them...I purchased the single family home last year a after looking at school districts and realizing that with 1 kid and one on the way I needed to shift.