He believed he owed much of his success as a writer and researcher to being married to his wife, and in study after study he found that exactly the same is true for most people who managed to accumulate real money in the USA.Although The Millionaire Next Door is Stanley's most popular book, there are a lot of insights in the other books he wrote as well.

Understand your local market, the economic drivers behind its success or failure and make your decision. 

@Candido Trinidad I’ve had good success with US Bank.

What are some things you wish you had known when you started off in the industry? 

Congrats on getting started so young, you're on the path to success! 

Example: By creating an irrevocable U.S. domestic trust, a nonresident alien (NRA) may be able to exclude US situs real property from US estate taxes.

Gave me the opportunity to see what success looked like, to learn from their successes and failures, to have in-person resources I could go to when questions or issues came up.So for me, having experience buying/owning a home combined with having local friends who can help are the two invaluable tools for what success I've experienced thus far.Hope that helps. 

People are successfully investing on both sides but once I know something I tend to stick with it.

Has anyone had success using Heloc for a downpayment on another investment property?

The cheaper that interest is and the reduceed  amount of time you're paying on it e.g. not when you're not using it makes the cost of that money less. you can spin scenarios where the original loan gets rolled over and over and that is fine but you're still paying interest on that and if you're having successful real estate Investments ultimately making money then great we just made money and paid for loan costs.