They wanted to be close to stuff to do/eat, or be close to work.

Here is your tip:Buy low and sell high, also don't eat the yellow snow.

This can eat into your profits significantly. 

Using a HELOC can provide you with the necessary capital at a lower interest rate to fund your next projects without leaning too heavily on hard money lenders, which can eat into your profits.Here are a some actors that you would want to consider:1.

Personally I think there are good loans out there but people look for the "perfect" loan that fits their buy box and meets a desired return - which the return is going to be based on risk.So for many you cannot have your cake and eat it too. thoughts?

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

For this they get a big fat DO NOT RECOMMEND 

Up until then I was cheerleading the earlier thought experiments about supporting lean/regular/fat income with ~$1000 / month per paid off SFH, thinking “I could bang that out in 5 years”.

Why do I need to tell people where to go and eat when they have Google and Yelp?

I am wondering what it takes to deliver a higher customer experience, equivalent to receiving a warm wash towel at a restaurant table before you eat.