I recommend you start with duplexes as you should always have a paying tenant.

Trans union missed an obvious reject candidate and now I’m paying the price.

There are cheap PMs, but I think you end up paying for that in the end. 

Let them pay the deposit with a credit card.

Quote from @Ricardo Lemus: For a newer investor, a good investment is a property that pays for all expenses with some cash left over.

Quote from @John Mason: If you are wanting to get ahead I would pay the  100 usd on fiverr and get it done and  then go to next  step  in  your journey and then learn the way to do it on the side so that you do not lose time..hope I made sense I do that now.

I take the approach of the investor pays me a fixed fee to learn this on their own so they never have to pay me again if they don't want to.

Quote from @JooYung Choi: You could consider going for a STR in a vacation market that will give you way more cash flow to pay off the HELOC quicker.

I've been taking RMDs each year as required, and to think that now I am allowed to empty the remainder of the account and move it into my personal IRA without paying taxes on the distribution.....well, that seems to generouse to be true from the IRS....

I spoke to local owners who have been audited for increasing rents without there permission and they had to pay back the difference!