Cash out refinance is the way to go since rates are lower than Helocs and its over a 30 year versus a shorter LOC.  

Real estate is best served by holding it forever, at least the way our current tax system is designed. 

After doing the program for couple of deals, I find out it is almost impossible to make profit on doing Flip with their system, since they are providing these stuff:1.Sourcing clients with deals on Zillow, that is anybody can do that, you can't buy a property with very low prices2.Asking un-credited investors to borrow Hard Money Loan, I don't really think anyone don't have much experience should borrow Hard Money Loan, with balloon loan mechanism, it is basically teaching new-bees to suicide.!

It's great insight since the tenants are living their normal life there versus a staged home.You may be able to talk with the tenants if they are there when you see the property.

Presumably they worked for the school system and they will not give out any address information due to privacy.Clever.

Plumber versus bagel shop.  

For the most part, all of the real estate based operating systems are geared toward property managers, NOT investors.

Also features that are desirable in duplex would be a separate heating system which allows the duplex part to adjust its heating and air conditioning to whatever the renter wants.

@Britney Lewin figure out what you want to achieve and where you want to live.You can probably get more bang for your buck in more tertiary areas in Florida versus primary or secondary areas like Orlando, Jacksonville, Daytona, Tampa, St Pete, etc.One area to consider might be the space coast.

Get set up with a payment system, maybe?