I am from the Chicago area and looking to purchase my first property in the next 3-6 months. 

Same answer whether you borrowed against your residence or against your rental A or against your life insurance or from your family or from any other source. 

I personally use the mass text capabilities through my Resident RE CRM.However I have a few friends who wholesale and invest and use Mobile Monkey to mass text and from what they say the price is pretty reasonable.

Real estate investing has been a passion of mine for time with my mother also having invested early on where I likely have gotten the love and desire to follow similar foot steps.I have taken last 6 months to educate myself and currently own a single family home as primary residence and would like to expand to multi family properties (2-4 units) for additional stream of income, not to mention potential tax benefits for long-term investing.Based on current living situation, I have a fair amount of equity established in my primary residency along with having enough cash to either pay off house completely or use towards investing in a multi family property.Given that I'm the sole source of income for our household with my wife being the home maker for our two kids under 2, trying to weigh out risks with getting started now or perhaps waiting. 

Quote from @Guillermo Perez: Can someone please let me know if this is ok for my first BRRRR.I got a $200k HELOC on my primary residence to help fund my first BRRRR.

That's not even the tip of the iceberg; it's so far away.

Pro tip - Home Depot has a tile from Ivy Hill that looks exactly like Zellige for a fraction of the cost.

I post my rental listings on FurnishedFinder and Facebook (there's a couple DU living fb groups) and have had a good experience with hardly any vacancies. 

.: My experience is similar to Colleen's experience.

@Jack Cottrell you post caught my eye.