An activity is a rental activity if tangible property (real or personal) is used by customers or held for use by customers, and the gross income (or expected gross income) from the activity represents amounts paid (or to be paid) mainly for the use of the property.

Therefore your main competitive advantage is price.

I might use the HELOC as an emergency fund knowing if I tap into it I now have to aggressively pay it down.Then main thing is you don't want to overleverage any property and if you use a second mortgage to buy a property, you are essentially 100% leveraged on that property.

I would not go with a brokerage whose main focus is SFR.

However my main question is what service can I use to report their rent regardless of tenant participating or not.

Suited homes are about $450+K looking at some PM companies, you'd get about $2K in rent for the main floor and $1.2K for the basement.I also have places in BC.

That's the main reason why I wouldn't worry if there were no hits in the first two days.

I do have my litigation attorney on our main priority of partial summary judgment for the lien.

Mainly because I am a rookie, but also because I did not know these questions to ask when starting out. 

. $219k - now $500k market price in very southern Maine/NH border.