Not sure how long the commute would be exactly but sometimes you have to sacrifice some comforts for long term goals.

ai is not only learning from prompts and virtual environments of trial and error, but also learning now from look-back study on how it learned previously and what the successful end was and how it could better have arrived to that end from start.

I felt very comfortable with them.

How comfortable are you with that risk and are the odds in your favor or against you. 

My question is I have about $30,000 in cash that I am comfortable using, but would like to keep that and see if I can get a home equity loan (since it is paid off and I could get at least $200,000) and use that to purchase my first rental property.

When we had more properties we would increase it, but it was not linear, but for me comfortable would be $20k for the first property and $5k increase for each additional door on top of that. 

Competition creates a healthy financial environment and the US will do what it does well circle back around and create a back door and establish new vendors to buy/sell.

.- Current Rent is 150$- $200 behind market avg.I am very comfortable in single family homes in this town (own 18 SFH rented and performing well).

I'm not a Judge, nor a DA, nor a criminal attorney or any such attorney but I AM a Real Estate Broker, and what I understand of the law in the capacity as is required of my licensure, have experienced of it, and seen of it all, as well as read of it, the exact actions in discussion are way too close for my comfort in fitting the definitive. 

Give up some of your personal comfort to increase earnings so you can pay to maintain the gift your mother gave you.6.