My advice would be fix the dog, and sell the puppies or adopt them out to a good home. 

Not the best thing to do - I should have raised it originally for a higher amount.

I know not typical on here to have such a little amount in loans but we enjoy great cash flow that we live on, have lots of flexibility in what we can do and have no concern about making payments if the economy were to take a dump.

The area had appreciated substantially in a short amount of time.

I have enough cash to invest and am considering cities like Indianapolis, IN; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Atlanta, GA; and Charlotte, NC.I’m looking to purchase houses around $300K, with the intention of fixing them up.

Welcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.

That's not true if there was only 1/10th the amount of pocket listings from 3-4 years ago.

Most of them do both fix and flip as well as wholesale, so make sure to tell them to add you as a buyer.

You'll give him six months probation period but expect a notice to vacate if he's late again and offer a new lease if he fixes his ways.

Use the HELOC funds for another investment strategy such as funding fix and flip projects.