I have struggled to find a lender and I am not going to pay ridiculous fees.

I think my biggest struggle is the management.

While in my search for my first rental property in Lynchburg VA, I’m struggling to stick to a specific area.

To be honest, between the anti-landlord legislation and propaganda that demonizes anyone who's a housing provider or developer, combined with a glut of housing units currently on the market that is causing me a ton of work to find good tenants for any given vacancy (think about that contradiction for a second), I'm really struggling with landlording at the moment. 

Rented at $1600/mthHouse cost $215kFixed cost are PM, HOA, INSURANCE AND TAX = 160+13+50+230=$453Current mortgage rates are my struggle. 

We're struggling a bit trying to find PML and came across this site.

However, having a real hard time finding any deals out there for fix and flip and even for buy and hold. flipped a bunch last year, and finishing up some buy and holds,  but struggling to find deals like I did before. anyone else dealing with this?

I've been toying with the idea of getting into rentals as some more supplemental income, and although I've struggled with the math as far as justification, i believe the main reasons folks here by rentals (please correct if I'm wrong) are: Cashflow (although I've seen people do deals eg on Roofstock for only $100-200/mo) + appreciation (when sold) + taxesSo assuming I'm correct there, then the potential tax benefits are 30% of the reason to do rentals.

What if hard times are in my future and I struggle to pay the HELOC back.

If it is apart of the process, what are strategies you guys use to help these struggling people come up with a plan so that they can move out, so you can acquire the property?