I decided to look into an official duplex or triplex putting 150K down that has value add with renovations and potential unit add but it wont have as much equity because it will be an on market deal. 

As I tell a lot of my investor clients I work with, with any real estate that you buy, you want to hold for the rest of your life!

I assumed you'd use HELOC for down payment + another loan for the rest. that is 100% financed. 

The key is to find a team and please please find a PM to work with first and let that PM help with the rest of the team.

@William Taylor so many options...Use your RE knowledge to: WholesaleFind rental deals to sell to investors locally or here on BPStart leveraging your personal contacts to build your sales businessFind a motivated seller willing to do seller financing:- Move in worst room or basement, rent out all the other rooms for max cashflow- You could even live in the basement and STR the rest of the house

The rest is garbage.

There are a lot of good meetups for real estate investors in the area that would be good to grow your network and learn from others that are and have been in your shoes as a new investor, message me and I can share on some specific monthly meetups.Also sharing some multifamily data, this is Boston proper so it has an interesting trend compared to the rest of Massachusetts.

We invest the rest in our business and reinvest all the profits from the business back into the business. 

Ok Im officially deciding to go down the wholesaling route now I'm currently working for a company locally to wholesale. 

You don't need to know everything to get started; you need a foundation to build on, and the rest will come through experience and then refining your education.You can build a basic understanding of investing in 3-6 months.