A newbie saying hello and asking a question

[Corey Bryce Jenkins]

So before I discover the biggest pockets podcast all I thought was to pay off my house to help my financial situation now after spending all that time effort paying its paid off and I've learned so much where I went wrong I just pulled a HELOC against my home and I'm wondering should I buy a single family home using the burr method and start slow or should I use some of this money as a down payment on a large multi family there are no large multi families for sale in my hometown I've look high and low and I've also talked to a bunch of the owners about selling so I'm thinking about doing a out of state investment but I really don't know where to start to find them