Just think about the worst damage a tenant can cause, such being liable for setting your rental house on fire or burning down your rental house and the neighbor's house, etc.

You need to calculate your return on equity to see if it’s time to leverage that equity more, you also want to calculate your blended interest rate of the original loan and the the HELOC to see if that’s the best rate or if a cash out refi would be better.If I were you I would look at doing the same move again and buy another primary residence and turn your current house into your second rental.

Furnish Finder, corporate housing sites, relocation companies, etc?

There is also plenty of other ways to get business, you can do open houses, use social media, door knock, etc.

unless it was forced appreciation I'd love to see a house that appreciated 15% in 6 months. 

I can never know for sure if the pipes or wiring was replaced (my biggest concern), I don't think an inspector can actually tell as well since you have to tear down the entire house.

can you house hack?

Hi everyone, we have a property under contract but we just got informed that there are alterations done to the house without appropriate permits.

I am looking to purchase my first investment property and I want to do a house flip.

Using basic numbers, assuming I sell a property for $10M and after cost basis is accounted for and mortgage is paid off, I have a net taxable gain to me of $3M.I'd like to purchase a rental lake house property for $1M (funds coming from that $3M taxable gain).