having a HELOC to have an emergency line is smart since if you really need it in a crunch you could draw funds within 1-2 days or less in most cases.

It may also make it easier for your estate planning attorney to line up ownership with your estate plan, assuming a CA-estate plan if a CA resident.

We have VAs that use triple line dialers and Pipedrive to run our CRM. 

In some cases, I've had a buyer lined up by the time I close.

I will PM you so you have my direct line.

Are you currently working on lining up funding or looking at potential properties yet? 

The bottom line is that you'll want to learn from someone for the first handful of deals and progressively take more and more on yourself until you can fly on your own.

Since most people who are not actively seeking a sale are not motivated to sell at anything other than a top of the line price, this is going to be a numbers game of x thousands of contacts for every potentially doable deal.  

I didn't intend to complete it in one deal, I was thinking more along the lines of the BRRRR strategy.As for the area, I'm still researching.

That "pipe" is known as a Line Set.