I feel the Seattle area real-estate (including King/Snohomish county) prices has gone up faster than I have ever seen before; the early spring allow so many home buyers to go out to shop and the overall economy and jo...

I dont know that the economy will ever really boom out there without major help in the form of subsidies and tax breaks but thats a major gamble.

After Portland liberalized its ADU regulations, it stimulated a boom in ADU projects.

I've lived on the edge of an energy boom.

I know it's a solid building, but I'm nervous about the oil boom going bust in 5-10 years.

My partner just received a letter from the tax collector that ask Any rental property owner is required to apply for a business tax Receipt (FKE occupational License) and pay 6% tax long term rental or short-term.!!!!  

Finding Owner InformationAfter I had a list of properties I was interested in, I needed the owner's contact information.This was actually very easy - I went on the local county's tax assessor's website, where you can search by address to find property tax bills/information, including the owner's name and mailing address.Every county in the US has a tax assessor's/collector's website that I am aware of.

Her paperwork is all in order, but it's an absolute bare minimum type thing.When she finally gets them out, she spends big on fixing the unit up, and boom it goes to market value.It's really crummy that she is forced by rent control to do this, but when she lists the rent she gets from this units and I start subtracting expenses... she only needs to list like 3 expenses before it's cash flow negative.

People purchased them pre-construction at the height of the boom.

During the recent boom, we had a bunch of California "investors" here in my little corner of Ohio.