I'm based out of Fairbanks, Alaska.

HELOC on the TH you're living in sounds the most doable (banks have more appetite to lend when it's owner occupied).Two cents - HELOCs can be great, but it is still debt and you'll want to make sure your base case expected return makes the juice worth the squeeze.

Market rate is $1100 on the same street for the same style, size, and age of house.The tenant has been there for 25 years and has also worked as a handyman for the landlord on various properties, so the current owner has asked me to keep him there for at least the next year before raising rents.Property taxes from 2023 are just north of $2000.Based on this Deal Calculator it should cashflow month 1.My questions:1.

You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

I have seen services like Likely.ai, PropertyRadar, PropStream etc.I'm also open to coding via Python based on publicly available APIs. 

If you want to find someplace to land pick it based on environment/people. 

Hello Pychou,My names Sarah Naylor, I am a local investor and investor friendly real estate agent based in Lancaster PA.

Based on rent of $1,695, I think you'll be lucky to get an appraised value of $160k with a CoC return well under 2%.

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