I’d look at listening to podcasts such as BP, BP money, straight up Chicago investor podcast.While in school and even now, I’d focus on working as much as possible to make sure you’re in a good position to have a down payment as soon as possible.i’d try to understand what a good deal is (underwriting), and also lending. 

You can do this with a simple, one-page addendum, or even a written statement added to the existing lease and signed by you and the tenant.Example:This lease agreement is hereby amended to reflect the change in ownership of the rental property located at 123 Straight Street, Cody, WY 82414.

The easiest and straight forward option would be, as you said, to sell the current residence, payoff the HELOC (or most of it) and then get back to saving with your jobs and the rental cashflow.

For replacement canoes that got damaged by straight line winds.

If we were to split like this on our current development, our engineers would collect 25 to 35 times as much as we paid them on a straight up fixed cost contract. 

@Ben Berg with renting rates, roommates or a straight rental, you always look at comps, or comparable homes.

Straight or diluted.

Real estate is relatively easy and straight forward.

Section 8 comes with guaranteed rent payments straight from the government, which is a huge perk.

Then you could just go straight to those locations to search for deals.