Brandon recommended charting the cap ex for each specific property.  

I am already charting forward towards realizing my goals and I have joined the biggerpockets to glean from the experts and one day give back to the community.

An excel ghantt chart is enough if you really want it.

Well in my book there ‘aint no school like the old school to gain an edge.Direct mail is now today’s “hottest new old school tool” and few other marketing mediums can deliver your message with the precision at such nominal costs.

You are precisely right, that same house for $30 Grand in your area, would be at $750K in Orange County, California. :)  Man, I wish those types of properties were in my back yard!!

Google "Fannie Mae Eligibility matrix" and you'll see the chart if you scroll down.Now, here's the hard part. 

Using the HELOC allows you to cascade the effect because as your principal balance gets lower on the mortgage side, you can keep pulling more out from the HELOC to pay off even more principal and so on goes the cycle.I am curious if anyone has some charts or calculator to show various scenarios for these.

His math and the corresponding chart do not make sense to me.He says the transaction went as follows:"For $2,000, which was loaned to me from a friend for 90 days for $200, I gave an attorney a cashier's check as a down payment....I asked for a $2,500 processing fee, which [the buyer] gladly handed over...I returned the $2,000 to my friend with an additional $200...I had sold a house for $60,000 that cost me $20,000.

Originally posted by @James Park: Yes, the value of the dollar is cyclical, but as that chart shows the overall trend is still DOWN.

Then he came in, sat, and before reading my chart, told me a political joke.While reading the chart he interrupted himself a few more times, all with jokes.