@Sharon McCants Yup around the 100-150k/unit mark can get you into a solid B area here that'll hit the 1% rule in most cases.

What types of real estate investment strategies are you most excited to explore?

.: @Kyle Collinshello. are you able and willing to travel to AL to build a network, look at properties, and get a team set up? 

A HELOC could help temporarily if you plan to payoff the balance quickly and are planning to save on monthly payments in the short term.  

C class areas/properties to A class areas/properties.

I’m eager to connect with both investors and first-time homebuyers.

Right now treating it as interest but would like to make it active income to do a solo 401k .

He's content to just walk away and let the bank have it.

Well, closing your account so quickly certainly doesnt help the attemp to network. 

I'm biased and can provide reasons and data to show that using an agent will protect you, get you more money, less stress and so on.The reality is you can do it yourself, but tenants generally don't cooperate with showings and that causes lots of problems for buyer to access the unit to show, inspections, appraisals etc.