Lots of great local groups around, each with pros and cons:TRIG: meetups once/month, paid membership, tons of local rooted investorshttps://www.trigofva.com/Hampton Roads Investor Group: Free, hosted by investor agents at 1st Class Real Estatehttps://www.facebook.com/group...Hampton Roads Landlord Associtaionhttps://www.meetup.com/HRLandl...

The last sentence of the previous paragraph also applies to finances because you'd be surprised, and certainly I was, at how many people come out of the woodwork to charge you x hundreds of dollars for this, x thousands of dollars for that, and so on. 

If it is free, you will get all the unqualified people applying and you will waste tons of time and money.

I am not sure how soon I can get new primary home (I am trying to offer this week but will see how it goes) but in case, I would like to apply HELOC before I start new home loan process.

We use 21st Mortgage/ Vander built/ Triad but they don't like investor loans and will not lend to an entity (LLC, Corp, Etc)I have applied with many investor portfolio lenders and been through the ringer asking this question for several years, its seemingly impossible out side of a small 5 year Commercial loan (local Texas bank) that we have received  on our SFR/MH rentals and these are all "perfected" and made part of the land. 

.• The current pipeline of 7,300 units will be unlikely to apply much upward pressure on regional vacancy rate.

My lender is unsure if income from a secondary home would be permissible to be written off against the mortgage when I went to try to apply for the new primary.

If so, can we legally use that company name to purchase the property, apply for a credit card, etc?

Have valid reasoning for the restriction and apply it evenly to anyone who applies, so it holds up in court. 

Propstream allows you to apply specific filters that will help you find motivated sellers.