Your last question made me think about my own properties. 

Having owned property in rockford its not a great appreciation area so getting a HELOC will probably take 5-10 years based on loan pay down and maybe some slight appreciation.

I am currently living out of state so I have hired a property management company to handle this task, however, my home is still sitting vacant with very few prospective tenants.

Being boots on the ground out here, seeing the state of some of the homes here both on and off the market and knowing the price of housing in the area, I am confident that I could be successful in flipping homes here. 

Wyoming has no state income tax.4.

When my youngest went to school, I changed my license status to Active, and have learned and enjoyed helping people buy/sell/invest for around 7 years now.Everyone's journey is different....you might one day no longer be a firefighter...you might move to another state....you might want to buy a house one day and having a real estate license could save you some money. 

We can work on maximizing that revenue in the future.I doubt an out of state investor is going to have success BRRRR in Huntsville right now, but then again, every investor gets to define success for themselves. 

It’s still relatively affordable compared to bigger cities, has strong rental demand, and no state income tax, which is always a plus.

Over the many years I've owned this place, I've only once deducted minimally from the security deposit because a tenant left an extreme mess. 

I have purchased one duplex using my own money and am looking to scale but wanting to leverage OPM or low or zero downpayment funding options.