Then right before closing, they ran the county records and said they can’t do a HELOC on a home I don’t personally own, and I would need to do a quit claim deed and put it back in my name to get the loan approved and then can do another quit claim deed to put it back under the LLC that it’s currently operating under. 

Now if you want to quit your full-time job and do this full-time, that's different conversation.

Just ensure the interest rate on the HELOC doesn’t eat up too much of those tax savings, and it could be a smart move.

I would say the forums can sometimes have good conversations about localities but finding info for a very specific need in a very specific town is going to be harder and not garner quite as many responses.

Philly can vary quite a bit street-to-street.

We do quite a lot of small-mid size multifamily in Reno which has somewhat similar dynamics to Sac, but with some key differences in terms of property taxes, landlord laws, etc. 

Higher taxes can eat into your profit, so do your homework upfront.Financing options.

When you add the accounting into all of this, it’s been quite the headache for me to manage where everything is going.

I cringe when I hear people are shelling out $10,000 or more to get started out in RE investing with these gurus and they just quit their W2 job (yikes!) 

Absolute NNN with 2% annual increases and you do nothing and has 20 years left on primary with parent corp. guarantee.Lot's of investors want to have their cake and eat it too.