My wife has been working with her TC for about 15 years now.. they are invaluable to the high producing RESI agents ..

Support/Maintenance requests would be high since the system is too complicated3.

Quote from @MarieChele Porter: I highly recommend you join the California Apartment Association.

It may make a difference if the rent for the $300k property is so high there will be few tenant prospects available and it may sit vacant.

Find one that can be custom to your needs, has flexible pricing, no long-term, high-cost memberships, and excellent customer services to determine how to best market to your leads.

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

My point is the process of investing in real estate is not as fluid as it seems and for busy people it may even turn them off or they may just start splurging money and expect high cash flow and that won't happen.

It's a high-risk, high-reward strategy and is not for everyone, if I'm being honest.

And in a highly competitive business that distressed RE is the inventory moves to fast one needs to be able to look at a deal and in 5 minutes decide.. at least to make and offer

HELOC will not get you much and probably will have a high rate due to the low equity you have.