You can use the HELOC for your down payments - translated - if you're buying 100k properties and you have a 100k line of credit and need 10% down, you can buy ten properties :) with your line of credit.If you already have properties ear marked for purchase and/or have them under contract, you may want to get the HELOC in the same month as you begin applying for mortgages for credit inquiry purposes.

If you have any outside liability claim, as you own the properties in your name, you are not protected at all.If you have an inside liability claim from the rental, as the LLC does not appear to have any function, it seems to act as your alter ego and its company veil will probably be easy to pierce and so won't give you any protection either...

You are right, economic turmoil of any kind translates into lost income to some extend, but let's break it down. 

A text is more personal but still a lot can be lost in translation in a text.

NNN lease with national companies usually translates to safer investments (everything has risk) but low returns.

If you have to switch into 4 furnace's, add electrical panels to support them, and potentially alter the duct system so that each unit is being heated by each furnace then why not simply get the new electric panels and run wiring to the units for electric heat?

In a lot of properties that you look at as a flipper many of them will have been altered in the strangest ways and usually done poorly.

For $20000 that translate into $400000.

But it does happen with immigrants who do not speak English and are reliant on third parties to translate and sign things for them.

I do agree it's probably next to impossible to alter politics or the big players running the show, I just want to educate people on these things because they will have an affect on our future whether we like it or not.