additionally sometimes the listings are just garbage, cell phone pics, or no pics, and limited info will easily make a listing sit. 

One unit of the quad is vacant and it can 100% be house hacked if you really want to get into rentals easily.

At that point, not only might you qualify personally, but the property is profitable, so the financing should come much more easily. 

I have not purchased in San Diego area since Dec 2021 (I purchased $4m that month that I have easily made over $1m on those purchases, but we are negative on the cash flow).  

Investment property HELOCs are hard to find but a closed end 2nd mortgage on an investment property is going to easily be in the 10s and up for an interest rate.More about DSCR loans:DSCR loans won't use your income to underwrite the loan.

Austin can easily support this.

Lots of excellent information broken down into easily digestible sections to implement into your business easily.

One can easily see there's more risk to the LL than the arbitrager would like to admit.It does seem to be working for you, but you also started right at the STR boom, kinda like someone buying a stock a tech stock in late 90's/early 2k's and telling everyone how easy it is.

in the Eugene market if its in decent shape 500k could easily be the value yes.

Repeat this process and you can easily build up a portfolio.