My thought is that as long as we can cover the HELOC payment from the rent that we would be collecting we’d be fine.Thoughts?

Rent covers the mortgage (plus a little) so it's working out okay for us so far. 

Our goal is to get to the point where our passive income will cover what i currently make(somwhere around 12 units) and i can stay at home to raise my boy.

On there you can track everything, have pictures and even post ads that they will syndicate out to rental websites automatically.

After looking at some info on cash out refinancing, I am now considering this as it would be a strong rental in a great area.My situation:This would be my 3rd  buy and hold...1 rental, 1 rv storage yard and this property.I have used a heloc for the 20% on each property but now if I hold this one traditionally my cash would not be enough to do another deal.I have flipped 1 house earlier this year with the intention of doing a few more to draw the heloc down to nothing by end of next year.If I do a cash out on this one I may not be able to pull all of my initial 20%/rehab out, but would be covering the notes/expenses and cash flowing some each month with a long term asset.

We don't anticipate having any emergencies with our rental properties that aren't covered by insurance and would cost more than $2500, but if we did, we'd chip in from our personal funds and cover it.

From experience though very few people actually read the details of a rental ad, they mostly just look at the pictures and the rent amount.

Someone else might have enough WFC that they collect more than enough in just dividends to cover their expenses, and they would laugh at your headache-laden RE investments, which they could never scale big enough fast enough to cover their expenses, whereas the click of a button get's them plenty of dividend income to live off very comfortably while compounding the rest. 

Cash-on-cash is your only metric here that may matter, and it's simply for comparing properties side-by-side and asking what the best use of your limited dollars is...Anyway,Your closing costs will be closer to 2% of the purchase price: $5,800 (unless the seller is covering this...if so, good job)Repair cost of $1,000 won't do anything...contractor fees will eat 50% of that...if you are renovating, you need to renovate to drive rents...$4k per unit will maybe do paint and carpet...a few fixtures. 

If you want to eventually live in it, the current income becomes less important, but seems like you can get to 1% if you do some repairs and raise the rent.If this is a buy and hold, the long term desirability of the neighborhood and big picture changes (is this neighborhood gradually getting better, or gradually getting worse?)