I'm looking into getting a HELOC on my primary residence (Duplex) and while searching around I found this lender called Homeside (http://heloc.gohomeside.com) They advertise 95% LTV.

My advice is to skip the OOS property investing and to instead save up the down necessary for an FHA purchase of a local detached duplex (house hack) that has a value add.  

duplexes?

GEt pre-approved with a lender.....buy a duplex/triplex or 4 plex....Put Section 8 tenants in your rental that YOU screen....That's what I did.....And I live for free.....in the San Francisco Bay Area.Then move out of the property......take the cash out from a refi...Repeat

Hello BiggerPockets Community,I am looking to buy my first rental property, which would be a duplex.

Montreal itself I feel it is much harder to find something that will cashflow, as duplexes start at around 500k or so in the nicer areas! 

I will be closing next week on a duplex in Great Falls that she found for me.

I plan on house hacking a duplex for my first investment.

.- 1% fee realtor website (bodecanada) - this is pretty new and I start to put my property there- rent out to tenants - this is what I am doing nowMy property is half duplex with illegal walk out basement suite so I rent out upstairs for $1200 and basement for $700.

My favorite thing is to build shelving into the walls - for example, our stairway to the basement has shelving for cleaning supplies, which we built into the stud space of the walls.