They are both retired, so not so easy for them to use Yelp and such. 

Their process is easy and you can get your HELOC within 2 weeks. 

How easy is it to produce $1000 in cash flow from 100k cash invested in real estate?

You may miss good deals while waiting, and more importantly, you will miss on making connections and getting a name out there for you as an investor that focuses on X or Y niches.However, you can definitively do something to take advantage of this market (high valuations and easy access to money) and your situation (low LTV and hopefully good cash flowing assets and personal financials) without having to deplete your cash reserves paying down loans or reducing your cash flow by getting me loans. 

Listing agent emailed me his declaration of service for trial evidence. 

Sounds like you're on the right track with your research, and I get how daunting the design aspect can be.If you were flipping houses, the design process is an easy fix and I would highly recommend an interior designer to take a look at your blank slate.

They also make it easy to open up several business accounts.

@Lucas Hammer Interesting - would think you were in the Big Easy!

Truly good BRRRs and Flix and Flip deals aren't terribly easy to find.

We do all of our payments through Cozy, which makes it easy.