The issue with watering your foundation is that you have to do it always, every year without a break in order to achieve the desired effect.

Does a tech firm really need to pay a CA located cpu engineer $300kyr when have national reach of hundreds/thousands equally qualified happy to do it for $200k....... 

You can easily do this on a spreadsheet and it will take less time to track than it would to find and learn a new software.

Or I would do a cluster of them on separate parcels or investment.

Hey Mike, always nice to see attorneys who get into the investment game themselves, and great to hear about what you're doing.

I started down this journey once I realized that being a youth pastor alone would never provide the financial future that I want for my wife and kids so I started investigating real estate and reading "BRRRR".  

- Yes, it does take more time to schedule this:(--- Our FieldTechs do have sets of locks our locksmith has pre-keyed, so we can "rekey" a property faster.

However, after talking to some loan professionals, it seems that there are always origination fees, appraisal fees etc.My question is, what fees should I expect to pay when opening up my first HELOC.  

Don't disqualify yourself without talking to an expert. 

I think alleging fake it to you make it just hugely rampant in the MF syndication space..