Oregon coast questions (Portland, Eugene, Salem: middle-class, to rent, crime rates)

[Metlakatla]

There's a couple with two children who showed up in one of the campgrounds last summer. They joined the local social media pages and asked for help in the form of money and food, but their profiles showed that they've been at this for a long time -- posts going back to 2012 begging for money and food. They finally got some local church to pay the first month's rent on an apartment, and now she's on social media every day begging for whatever. Today it was a blouse to wear on Christmas. Both are able bodied adults late 30s -- 40s. I wish they'd get lost.

[Nurse Bishop]

Originally Posted by clikrf8

We usually travel up and down the Orehon Coast in the shoulder season when State campgrounds aren’t as full and you don’t have to dodge the big RVs. We noticed quite a few for sale signs north of Florence on the ocean side when we drove through there about a month plus ago. Also, the homeless are everywhere camping out in the Siuslaw National Forest and Tillamook State Forest either boondocking or at the campgrounds. I was told, at least for the Lincoln City Area, that the homelessness is due, in part, to apartment and house rental owners preferring to do a VRBO for more money than as a rental for a longer time. There are a lot of them.

The people across the road are literally running a motel out of a single family home. There are sometimes 5 or 6 carsat a time parked over there. So the all the 'vacationers' clogged up and wrecked their septic system. Now they have to have a 20G bottomless sand filter to replace it. I am enjoying > Schadenfreude.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

'Vacationers' are part of living on the coast.

[Baking.Bigfoot]

Originally Posted by clikrf8

We usually travel up and down the Orehon Coast in the shoulder season when State campgrounds aren’t as full and you don’t have to dodge the big RVs. We noticed quite a few for sale signs north of Florence on the ocean side when we drove through there about a month plus ago. Also, the homeless are everywhere camping out in the Siuslaw National Forest and Tillamook State Forest either boondocking or at the campgrounds. I was told, at least for the Lincoln City Area, that the homelessness is due, in part, to apartment and house rental owners preferring to do a VRBO for more money than as a rental for a longer time. There are a lot of them.

You are right. My hubby works for the Forest service and they tell him to watch out for the homeless people living in the forests. Transients can actually be more dangerous than the wildlife living there. Most animals will run away from you....transients...not so much.

[oldtrader]

Originally Posted by Sherwoody

Perhaps trading homes might work if both parties owned their homes outright, but I don't think banks or mortgage companies would be willing or able to make a trade possible.

From 30 years of experience, it is no harder to get a property financed when involving an exchange, than it is from a sale.

[Sherwoody]

Originally Posted by oldtrader

From 30 years of experience, it is no harder to get a property financed when involving an exchange, than it is from a sale.

Good to know, but I'm guessing it may not be as easy if one or both parties are not easy to qualify nor have 30 years history in Real Estate ownership.

[texasdiver]

Originally Posted by Sherwoody

Good to know, but I'm guessing it may not be as easy if one or both parties are not easy to qualify nor have 30 years history in Real Estate ownership.

Banks don't care whether or not you are buying the house when you take out a mortgage. They only care about the value of the house and your ability to pay (and who holds the title obviously). People are constantly refinancing and taking out second mortgages, neither of which involves buying the house.

[xPlorer48]

Originally Posted by Baking.Bigfoot

You are right. My hubby works for the Forest service and they tell him to watch out for the homeless people living in the forests. Transients can actually be more dangerous than the wildlife living there. Most animals will run away from you....transients...not so much.

Some we met had families but were reclusive. The camp host at the USFS Campground near Gold Brach said they paid their $10 daily camping fee. But, some of them look a little worse for wear.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Try running around in the national forest above Estacada.

Scary as hell sometimes.

[sorupaa]

Free food. Road kill