(this will help you keep your money)Profit First, by Michal Michalowitz (this will help you organize your money)The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller.

Purchase preforming notes capped at half your total deployable capital (150K)Then sale the future revenue of those notes through note exchanges, doing this will allow you to hedge the US real estate volatility while turning a profit from the market  

In the end I still made a profit and helped a new investor.

Reduce the price, make the sale, split the profits, and re-start your life.

Access to financing, such as 90% of the purchase price, can significantly lower the entry barrier, but success still depends on having a well-thought-out plan for managing renovation costs, timelines, and potential risks to ensure a profitable outcome.

The strategy involves using the HELOC for a flip to generate fast cash, reinvesting profits into long-term rentals, or exploring alternative ventures like short-term rentals or partnerships.

You may not have to wait long to start turning a profit.

I'd plan to save any profits each month for future CapEx, repairs, vacancy until we had ~20K for this house set aside.

My thinking is this leaves me with two paths: A) Best case is I pick up the foreclosure for $1M, immediately list it for sale at $1.6M or more and hopefully sell for a > $500K pretax profit. 

And if/when dig deeper, come to find that entity is barely making a net profit end of day.