For context, downtown Alexandria performs super well as a rental market and bringing in $5.5k+ as the monthly rental income if you choose to move out of the househack in the future will be absolutely feasible (depending on the property of course).

Does anyone have any tips or software tools to help give estimates on pricing and the potential occupancy of the rental?

Focus on identifying promising neighborhoods in the north or east bay by leveraging your husband’s contractor network, local real estate agents, and online deal-finding platforms.

This is a common misconception but we're an online platform where the owner chooses their own price and selects their own tenants.

You'll get lowballed like crazy and have to deal with a lot of tire kickers of course but if you know what it's worth you can probably find some serious buyers at a reasonable price.

.- Background: Took some real estate classes before but really a lot of self learning on creative financing - Current Goal:To close my first wholesale deal within the next few months by learning from seasoned investors and applying proven strategies.I'm here to absorb as much knowledge as possible, so if you have any tips or resources, I’m all ears!

I also realized last night (after I made my original post, of course) we could do a HELOC on our primary residence.

Literally, first come first serve, assuming you are granted a judgement, of course. 

- Of course, most of these PMCs weren't even properly licensed and were typically one-person companies.If you have an LLC, the PMC will only need the LLCs EIN.- If you chose to set up your LLC as a pass-thru entity, then you will need to supply your SSN.FYI - to avoid getting nasty letters from the IRS about errors (which might cause us to be audited), we will ask for a copy of your EIN assignment letter or a copy of your SSN card to confirm those numbers.

Of course, you don't need to do that before investing, but you need to be building that list.