Someone told me I’m crazy since they still always pay. 

Quote from @JooYung Choi: You could consider going for a STR in a vacation market that will give you way more cash flow to pay off the HELOC quicker.

Pays on time?

Usually MTR comes fully furnished with utilities included, so you pay for the convenience.if the area has traveling nurses, other professionals that come for a few months for work they normally pay more, in certain cases the employer pays the rent not familiar with that particular market,  but worth looking into it.

. - Minimum work history: 1 year (please provide references and pay stubs for the past 3 months; if self-employed we can discuss alternatives to paystubs)

Paying for a Section 8 investment course is the equivalent of an aspiring cook paying for a course titled: How To Boil Water

If you do have a TX LLC just to hold a TX property, you still have to register in CA as a foreign LLC, which still means paying the CA LLC tax.

And if the buyer defaults and stops paying, then you just foreclose on them just as any bank would foreclose on a buyer who stops paying.

I went to pay them, couple of days work I'll pay with a check (1099) and cash it for them.Hey Tony, I've got all O's info what's yours?"

We have taken over LOTS of occupied units with under paying tenants.