., go drive by it for a roof or siding job) to enable accurate estimates. 

Purchasing a new build in a steadily growing area has enabled me to get a good house (with some equity already) and have roommates pay a majority of my mortgage.

This is a great way to work yourself into a lower risk deal while maintaining your full time job.First step: House HackSecond step: Continue to increase your income and save while looking for great partners and refining your strategy going forward.Third step: After defining your strategy and finding partners with more experience, add more value than you take.Fourth step: Consistently and unemotionally pursue your's and your partner's goals.Hopefully this strategy will enable you to make progress while keeping you from rushing into anything you're not ready for.

Our current situation is that the HELOC balance enables us to go on 2-3 properties simultaneously if we're getting properties at say $30-70k a piece.To answer your question specifically - you won't do a HELOC on your investment property. 

My wife and I have been looking at and analyzing properties over the last several months, we are looking to acquire our first 2 unit rental property with the goal of producing enough passive income over the next several years to enable to us to become financially independent from our daily jobs. 

These will not be set in stone but will enable you to get started.

NREL first recognized the issue in 2008 and since then many steps have been and are being taken to modernize the grid to be able to handle 100% renewables: 1) Target energy efficiency to the hours when load ramps up sharply2) Acquire and deploy peak-oriented renewable resources 3) Manage water and wastewater pumping loads (7% of load)4) Control electric water heaters to reduce peak demand and increase load at strategic hours5) Convert commercial air conditioning to ice storage or chilled-water storage6) Rate design: Focus utility prices on the "ramping hours" to enable price-induced changes in load7) Deploy electrical energy storage in targeted locations8) Implement aggressive demand response programs9) Use inter-regional power exchanges to take advantage of diversity in loads and resources10) Retire inflexible generating plants with high off-peak must-run requirementsOur electrical infrastructure is dated and in need of improvement anyway, adding more solar just forces us to deal with an already underlying issue. 

She is an up and coming musician (known) and I feel comfortable with her being solely responsible.

Lots of people on this board have built up revenues enabling them to be their own boss.

Patreon is another service that is popular and allows artists and musicians to make a living based on the donations of donors.