Please let me know if you do pursue this - would be great to hear your experienceThanks, @Chris Mason!

Chris, cutting expenses is a myth by and large.

@Chris Karley - thanks for the input - I'll check with the city records. 

:)  Also, JR, Tucker Merrihew of the Real Dealz podcast came on my show for an interview... he has an excellent podcast called The Real Dealz Podcast, which I would reccomend to you especially, because Tucker is one of the biggest players in Portland, Oregon.  

@Jeffrey Coleman I would also speak to @Chris Winterhalter about apts vs. hotel investing.

Chris, I am flexible in the solution I can provide.

@Cory Jones @Chris Erwin @Becca Summers @Pamela Starnes @Alexander Price @David Thompson @Robert C.

This leaves you with more turnkey rentals at retail price ... if that is what you want to buy anyhow, then no problem, but if you are looking at getting a distressed property for under market value with a VA loan, that could be a problem, unless you have an evil genius mortgage broker like Chris M. that could figure out how to make the darn thing close escrow :)

Listened to the Ramsey and Chris Hogan podcasts and some others...and decided to get rid of the small balances first versus tackling the big interest rate balances...Getting rid of the small debts and then compounding up to the bigger ones was the motivating kicker to keep me on track and got me to soon reach debt free status. 

@Chris Heeren this is right up your alley@Diane G.