Above are just hypotheticals, but they bring to light the point, which is, evaluating opportunities requires apples to apples comparisons. 

I would love to hear from other more experienced in the field about alternative ways to financing that I should consider besides the HELOC, maybe also hear from investors on how the process of bringing investors onboard works.

I have seen all sides of this equation, self managing my own properties locally, but moved with the Navy 1000 miles away and managed the same rentals from afar, and had friends here in Memphis that had 18 properties and had them all with PMs with varying levels of success, some bad and some great.Self-managing brings about an additional level of responsibility that most of the time is fine, but that is not what you hire a PM for.

If you don't know a realtor at the moment, San Antonio's Association of Realtor is nice enough to share their data to the general public through their website: http://realestate.sabor.com/pages/mlsstatsThis is a little bit more labor intensive since you have to input the zipcode and it'll spit out the MLS data, but you can use this data to create your heat map.

Surrounding yourself with a team brings some risk, but the risk is on your ability to judge people and processes. 

📈 This development is bringing massive growth to the University City area!

In addition, when you click on their website link about Clayton's event their website doesn't even work. 

📈 This development is bringing massive growth to the University City area!

We're currently using it as a replacement to security deposits but I'm considering bringing back deposits since there are certain costs that Waivo doesn't cover.

In most cases, neither is warranted.ANONYMITY: When you create the LLC, your name is recorded on the documents and published on the Secretary of State's website for all to see.