I'm having trouble finding someone who can help me through this process and/or someone who can answer any in-depth questions about it.  

Then you can read a more in-depth book like The Book On Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner or The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing by Spencer Strauss.2.

I'd be more than happy to chat with you offline more in depth! 

I'm in the data compilation portion of my hunt, and the data I am looking for will result in thousands of items being harvested for digesting and manipulation; my needs require "big data" to be involved and I was really looking for sources like listsource that was suggested by Zachary.

Any other “theories” or manipulation of the numbers to justify why the heloc is better are just simply BS. 

I'm having trouble finding someone who can help me through this process and/or someone who can answer any in-depth questions about it.

I have a few cities in mind at the moment, (no in-depth rationale for why I chose them) but I think they're good starting points. 

I'm sure the author could have wrote a book for each of the laws.Even though there are 1 or 2 laws which I find manipulative and not necessarily want to implement, the rest of the content is so rich and useful that I decided this to be my number 1 pick!

Even the T-12 can be manipulated with deferred maintenance or even off the book expenses to prep the property. 

I just looked into it in depth, looking for a way to shelter my pension from an impeding market crash.