In real estate, you need to start doing sooner rather than later to be successful. 

Thanks for the warm welcome, and heres to our success together! 

I have an investor friend who is a very successful wholesaler in a market, (south FL), that is crawling with wholesalers.

If I break even, should I consider this a success for a first flip?

He owned a duplex, and one of the long-term tenants had built a small deck out back without permission.

We have had success buying in the winter, but this time it feels different. 

There may not be much demand for a short term rental that far from Atlanta.

Example, a short pay history - non-redeeming factor, a 25% down payment, a redeeming factor to counter the short pay history.

In addition, they connected me to the preferred lenders who also helped with closing on the property within a short period time.

The six month cd isn’t the point my understanding is that I can’t just take out the HELOC, I need to actually use the money for my plan to work and a short term CD seemed safe and reasonable