Question 1: should I wait for mortgage rates to come down and then refinance and take out a HELOC and use these funds to buy another property?

Hi, @ Antonio W. have you found out any other information on Keystone funding network?

I wasn't set to buy with REI. 

I am not sure if you have been following the news, but the whole world has just changed for agents with the way rental and buy side commission is done.

Happy to help anyway I can just need some more information!

And make sure that all items necessary for you to get the best rate possible from your carrier (like 4 point inspections, roof attachment points, pool enclosures etc) are present or available.One nasty little factor that can't be helped is that every time you buy a property for more than than last owner paid - you will have a tax bump due to re-assessment. 

At least you have an asset and can start building the cash to buy a STR for yourself and then roll on.

Is there any experienced investor / mentor I can talk to, or any source of information you recommend for people like me? 

*Rendering of Waterside Development*Brookfield is ahead of some other developers in the area, already well into it’s Halley Rise development, which delivered it’s first phase of buildings in 2022, and at completion in 2026 will have brought 1.5 million square feet of office space, 250,000 square feet of retail, 5 acres of public open space, and new public streets and infrastructure, also just outside the Reston Town Center Metro.Source: Chuck Kuhn Set To Buy Long-Stalled 225-Acre Loudoun Development SiteSource: Exclusive: Chuck Kuhn has deal to buy massive Silver Line development siteSource: Sterling quarry would become lake in waterside developmentSource: Rivana Developers Eye Construction in Early 2024Source: Halley Rise Project Remains on Schedule in RestoThanks for reading my thesis on Reston Virginia.

I am the executor of the estate and my brothers agreed to let me buy them out on the house so i can use it as a rental property to supplement my retirement.