Go down to your local bank branch, hopefully it's a smaller bank (they will have better rates and service and be more thankful), and ask about HELOCs.

If not, there could be numerous chains of the contract which can convolute things.

This enables you to get your feet wet while seeing how the experience goes and once you get that settled in and you're comfortable with your processes then I'd start branching out into other investments whether it be local to you or out of state. 

I even gave you the olive branch and acknowledged how butthurt new investors can get.

One day this daughter said that we needed to put the water hose on and through the 6 foot tall chain link fence because people were coming who needed water. 

And even in receivorships like with some of the bigger chains it's not a given that just because a store goes dark the landlord gets nothing. 

There's something called daisy chaining, where wholesalers sell other wholesaler deals and continually mark up the prices. 

At the time, and still similar now, I do not have a consistent flow of off market deals that are not from daisy chain wholesalers.

Can't use the MLS or do daisy chains off other people. 

My guess was that the floor wasn't leveled in certain areas leading to a chain reaction of splitting