Great school district. 

There are many of my friends that I have been able to help them buy their first house, and even if you don't want to be a heavily involved agent, just helping your friends from school is a good way to get some cash to start saving capital.

You have a few options here: 1: Simply focus and pay for your schooling.

Look for areas with good schools and low crime, then narrow in on specific neighborhoods.

My kids have the opportunity to attend a great school so we're moving.I think there's an opportunity here to get creative.

." --- What is holding you back, I can already tell you that buy and hold is probably the best bet for you (I can already tell you don't want another job flipping, short-term rentals, old-school landlord, etc.), but why haven't you figured this out on your own yet? 

@Grant Schroeder and I both went to school at GFU and Grant has quite a few investment properties in Newberg.

This property is part of my real estate school of hard knocks tuition.

I'm planning on house-hacking properties I can add value to, and taking out more loans using my equity to scale my portfolio.My fun fact is, post high school I spent three years traveling the country and visited 22 states.

well having done this for years and years I can tell you people in foreclosure are not going to do this. they wont understand it.. they are in distress . they are not investors.. the main goal for most is to stay in the home as their kids are usually in a school etc.Safest way is to buy it straight up they leave you pay them whatever you agree to for equity and your both down the road.