Offer to sign a confidentiality agreement to try to break the information loose.You can often underwrite a deal using a market rent survey and industry standard expenses.

Here is a link for Washington: https://www.dol.wa.gov/business/realestate/As for CRE education, start with a good book.

I’m just starting out, sifting through threads, reading books, watching YouTube, listening to podcasts, and swimming in ponds of RE stuff.

Also most standard mls contracts contain an automatic or "check the box" addendum for 1031 exchanges. 

.- you can google hard money lender and they will pop up if you want to go that way.There are tons of others, there are a lot of resources on the site and books that go into depth like the ultimate guide BP puts out.Good luck!!

There are many rental units in the city that are not up the standard of habitability and fly under the radar. 

60 years is pretty much standard around here... but since your property now has a known problem (trust me, title insurers do not operate in a vacuum), the time period is irrelevant.Switching title companies wouldn't fix the problem, it would actually hurt you.

After months of listening to every single BP podcast, reading all the BP books and countless posts, I finally closed on a 3-flat in Chicago that I’m house hacking.

My job lets me listen to 20-30 hours of podcast a week and I've been churning through various real-estate podcasts and books for over a year now and I figured it was time to jump in the forums and start having a real conversation.As an electrician I've done just about everything in residential from new to old, giant apartment buildings to picker cabins. if anyone has a question I'm happy to help. for now I'm going to dive into the forums and help as much as I can.

I was taken aback by the sheer Income potential that was compounding in someone else’s account while I was sitting on their balcony...the calendar was booked the week before me, and the week after we were set to leave...assuming everyone paid the same rate I did...I was blown away by the $6000/month earning potential...Does anyone here have experience  with this sort of real estate investing?