I'm a newbie to real estate investing, so little words are very much appreciated :)Big picture if it helps: I'm exploring an all in one so I can plop extra savings into it until I'm ready to purchase additional properties and then can pull the money from the all in one for a downpayment elsewhere and then will continue to throw money into the all in one from my main job as I save for additional downpayments.

You need to be smarter than these folks who have experience.  

I currently house hack a duplex in Bergen County and am wondering if any North Jersey folks here have successfully implemented MTRs and what worked/didn’t.

My VRBO does 2 payments and I've never had any issues with it, but did see some folks talking about VRBO sending check-in info when the 2nd payment hadn't been paid.

Do we charge extra, tell them to leave?  

Hey folks I’m going to live in this home for a year or so then turn it into a rental.

I help folks buy and sell STR's every day.

We project we would still be cash flow positive even with the extra costs of the HELOC, but we would ideally rather have more cash flow then less at this timeWhat are things we need to be considering or thinking about?

-I would need to hire a Real Estate Attorney to draft this unusual purchase contract, and that would be an extra cost.

If you got the extra cash to repair HVAC I would invest in that, if you are on a tight budget maybe ask someone to lend you some money.