It's great to run into other positive individuals in multifamily space. 

There are plenty of cash-flowing markets here - especially in the STR space.

@Ori Skloot  If you are paying your employees $ 27 an hour , with withholdings , workmans comp , and the other related costs , they are costing you around  $ 38.00 to $ 42.00 an hour The true cost of your labor was closer to the $ 9000 mark . 

I was coming from the notes space where almost all transactions begin with an Option.

Also, you may want to look into a two family home and rent out part of the space of your new home under the FHA loan structure too. 

The Trustee of the REIT can buy and sell properties within the REIT without triggering a capital gain event to you as the investor, however, this flexibility also allows the operators to potentially add properties to your investment portfolio that may expose you to risks or asset classes you were previously unaware of.There are a couple of sponsors I am aware of that carve individual properties out of the REIT, into a DST, then pull them back into the REIT at a significant mark-up to the DST investor.

For further reassurance, you could take their lease to a real estate lawyer and ask them to review it.Lastly, If you have any friends in the property management space, maybe you could buy their leases as well. 

Remaining Mortgage: 152K.I currently have about 50K in cash.My main thought was to find a cash flowing rental in the 150-200K mark and use my entire HELOC on property A to fund it. 

Find a brokerage that specializes in the investment space.

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