And I am constantly looking for new areas for growth.I started flipping land (owned almost 80 lots out there at one time) about four years ago then got into acting as developer where we I had builders build a couple of cabins and flipped them to end buyers. 

I have a nearly couple dozen in the area and my average rent is almost $900.Be careful who you take advice from

I've taken a couple real estate courses but Big Pockets is the best and I have been binge watching for the last 2 weeks and im super excited to start investing im looking to do the Brrrr strategy and looking to pick up small multi family properties and possibly off market flips. 

I'm looking to start off in areas with lower costs coming in, preferably under $100k single families but definitely under $200k. 

I have decided to look into a heloc, I'm a bit newer into realest state investing, I have completed a couple of fix%flips this year, I currently use hard money for the purchase with 10% down and I cover 100% of the rehab, with that said even just doing a couple of homes at a time, I find myself around 200k out of pocket, I think it would be a bit easier on myself and wife if we utilized a heloc vs just cash, my primary should appraise around 1.1m and my mortgage is 640k, I'm looking at pulling about 250k for a heloc, I don't want to refi the home and cash out as I only want to pay interest on funds as I use them ( I know I won't always be using the heloc cash) Any advice or even knowledge for people in a similar situation, and anyone have a referral for a Heloc?

I had to add a couple more counties to my lists, and still very slim. 

I struggle with that myself.Insurance broker - I can introduce you to a couple of great agents, but they are not on Bigger Pockets, so I cannot tag them.

If you are limited to those areas for residency, and you choose to keep that job, you are going to have to either a) wait for a couple years and save up a heftier down-payment, b) change your strategy like you said and go for houses further away (do flips, STR or BRRR).Or, if you are sold on the house-hack concept, at some point you might have to look at a different job that allows you to move where house-hacking will work....

Eventually, my goal is to scale into the development world, but in the meantime, I am looking for my first couple deal.

A couple of other folks have mentioned this, but the TREC forms are absolutely available for anyone to use.