While doing that fix it up with some sweat equity, creating that forced appreciation, and buy your next.

Don't put a dollar into any of your deals, just your experience and sweat equity. 

So I want to use my knowledge to get sweat equity was my plan

Full Value Creation - Everything I "create", I "keep" - no sweating for the CEO's bank account.2.

Do your magic touches to it and add sweat equity.  

Lots and lots of work and sweat.  

I am a sweat equity guy so I can do a lot of work myself.

And, for those people who have more time than money, they can put in sweat equity into directly owned real estate.

At my point in life everything I own is both a cash flow superstar and appreciating nicely, because I'm invested in growing, popular areas.If I was just starting off now, I'd probably be aiming for value-add in good areas where I could either live there while improving the unit(s) - ie a duplex, triplex - or where I could trade sweat equity for profit, or both.

.: @Jordyn Ohsnot enough info to helpbut if you're using a HELOC for the down payment AND getting a loan, then you're probably negative cash flow given that's 100% leveragei would never do that unless i were going to refinance in the short termHi Nicolas, Heloc for down payments, but my own cash and sweat equity for the rest.