Also, finding a mentor will speed up your learning curve quite drastically.

Has anyone done any flips located near a cemetery and did it effect the speed or price of the sale.

Maybe I'm not up to speed with the mechanics of a HELOC.

A tip that helped me:The podcast app I was using lets me speed up or slow down the audio speed.

My family is considering a move to the Lafayette area, so I'm just trying to come up to speed on the area quickly.With the university in town, and having heard a little about the economic depression due to falling oil prices, the place *seems* ripe for a good rental market.  

All the rain and the freeze/thaw cycles speed up the degradation of masonry work, wood work, paint, and can cause many other issues that don't occur as often in warm, dry climates.Regarding your appreciation estimates: in a C or D area, you may or may not get 3% property and rent appreciation--lots of C and D areas depreciate (without a LOT of data and research, it's impossible to know what the future holds...and even with a lot of data and research, it's impossible to know what the future holds!). 

Direct lenders are straight to the source, which may result in lower fees, will speed up the processing time to close, and preserve your credit score with simply 1 source pulling that information.

If you don't have all the information you need to make a decision, speed is your worst enemy.

I didn't get into real estate to flip houses my goal is passive income but $20k in a 4 months could really speed up my investing.

I elected for it considering I wanted to use my savings on renovations to get the property up to speed with 2018 & the potential rents I saw would cover the 1st mortgage and DPA/CCA mortgages.