Understanding how to source potential deals can be a game-changer.

Often times, their approval processes are slow.Credit Unions - Their member structure also subsidizes their financial structure so they can also be a source of low-cost financing.

Unfortunately, while all the online places area great sources of information, you are much less likely to take action, or find someone to shadow, when online in a forum. 

If you offer more $ for the property than the all cash offers AND you appear to the seller to be highly qualified in the method you are using for sourcing the payment, at some point your offer will be more appealing than the all cash offers.I don't understand why you would consider a 1031 for another property in two years. 

Go with any of the above sources.

Hi Lenny,Probably I would wait until you have a steady income source to make it easier to get a mortgage.

In the past, I've found both to be good sources of information for market insight and referrals. 

If you believe that is true, please cite a source.

The second part of the Tardus strategy is to pay off/down the HELOC by using both the income earned on the investment AND wage/salary income or income from an outside of the subject investment source.  

That will be an important piece to this depending on how you plan to source your capital.