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This would obviously reduce my cash flow on both properties, as I would be paying the minimum HELOC payment plus extra towards the principal to pay it off quickly.

However, it adds up quickly if you analyze the cost of turning the unit, marketing, vacancy loss, and your team's time to find a new tenant.

This is a quick and dirty way to quickly make heads or tails of the property very quickly to understand if it’s insanely over priced.Lessons Learned: I should have transitioned to larger commercial deals sooner.  

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Turning over some kind of commercial property is more labor intensive but it also scales quickly because of potential returns.

I emphasized the quick closing timeline and my ability to pay cash via hard money financing to strengthen my offer.

These guru's pitch get rick quick with no money down, so people "want to be investors" but fail to start because they had unrealistic expectations from day 1.  

Once I did a portfolio refi, I got all those loans off my credit report and my credit shot up into the 800s very quickly.