Start with books like The Book on Rental Property Investing and The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, use BiggerPockets for networking and deal analysis, and leverage tools like Redfin, PropStream, and Rentometer for market research.

Michael had built his portfolio from the ground up, starting with a single rental property.

Funny enough, I was going to suggest you move out of SF due to the high cost ;-) I'd suggest going down the SF condo route to start as financing for commercial units is a lot more difficult than residential properties.

JimGo to the city’s assessor’s website and look up the property record.  

I use a property manager there. 

He’s an investor himself, has a STR property management and has everything dialed in. 

Quote from @Marshall Stanek: NEVERMIND.....I found it by digging into the different Forum Category drop downs.FORUMS > Events and Networking > ClassifiedsThis is the only place you can market a property for sale.

HELOCs typically do not go above 75-80% of value and since the property was purchased recently they would not see that equity unless you did some major rehab to the property.

Just make sure that the new property can cover the HELOC payments as well as its own mortgage.

Quote from @Joanne Bragg: I found a great property at an excellent price to flip.