This is a fantastic place to start.To answer your specific question about your next purchase, a good places to start would be to reach out to a mortgage broker to see what your options are.

This is fantastic thank you!

Can't control flow of leads, so I quickly hit a ceiling with it, and Zillow takes 40% OUCH!

Unless you're charging bare-bones prices, someone will want to control their own comfort.

That you can secure CONTROL and MONITIZATION of a property via a fractional capital outlay vs it's market value, better known as a down payment.     

Rent control?

Appreciation is a bit riskier since it depends on factors we can't always control, such as school levies passing, business success, crime reduction, etc.In my opinion, it’s hard as a newbie to jump into appreciation properties, as they require a lot more initial capital to acquire.

We are building wonderful houses for great clients that, in this market, soon have fantastic value over the cost to build.

When you can refinance and how much you can take out is largely dependent on market and economic forces that are out of one's control.

When flipping there's many things that can come up out of your control that can prolong your progress and therefore your investors might begin to get impatient with getting their return.