Structure your offer to make it the most beneficial for you as the purchaser.

@Jerome Thompson you don't need 20% equity to take out a HELOC (usually beneficial though), but you do typically need to be in your house 6+ months before you can get one.What is your current financial situation?

Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring a beneficial deal.

My question, would it be more beneficial for your first property to be a location you're uninterested in using?

A GOOD tenant has choices, you want to look at your value proposition to them.

Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring a beneficial deal.

I have no choice but to go on but its just so discouraging doing all this alone.  

You are exempt from the "source of income" protection though, which means you are allowed to deny an application just because they have a housing choice voucher, which would not be the case if you owned more than 4 units. 

For a beginner, do you think this sort of setup is like building a huge fortress against an army of ants, Or is this something the client might like to have some choice about as a beginner.

We hope that this introduction could lead to a mutually beneficial collaboration.