The reason this works so well is because the remaining money from your paycheck is not sitting in a random bank account doing nothing for you, with this model it's actually paying down your loan balance.A few short months later your HELOC balance is zero.

If you don't readily have full command and comprehension of every facet in this, absolutely get an attorney asap to do all of this, it is NOT an item to mess around with randomly found forms from the internet. 

Someone who is happy to have random strangers showing up with no control over the schedule. 

Does anybody know of good ways to get in touch with real estate agents aside from cold calling random realtors on Zillow i.e. joining groups, Monthly meetings, anything?

Some random thoughts - Can you put in $5k even?  

I'm in Cypress a lot for carwashes (best carwash in OC is on the corner of cerritos and valley view) and other random things I can't talk about.  

Or maybe people have had success by random direct mail and things like that?

Try and randomly talk to the person behind you in line at the grocery store.

Random thought, have had this thought for awhile. what do you think about buying a piece of land (unless you already have) outside the city limits and hosting a flea market.

I have been analyzing random deals using the bigger pockets rental calculator just to practice.