I know, well I thought I did all the real " players" in Cleveland. 

I want to get to know the Players, contractors, mgmt companies, finance and RE.

I pay bi-weekly on my mortgage but I do mines different...

Also, a strong financial player can swoop in and buy out less financially able people.

The suburbs are more family-focused and HOA-dominated so make sure you know what the CC&R's state before buying in such an area. 

The REAL players have to deal with new nonsense and new "players" in town that make everyone's business' harder to operate than usual.Hey, maybe something like a recession that may or may not be coming will wipe out all these "players" 🙂

So if you do need to sell you can and you can get top dollar.Own a home in the cash flow markets that are dominated by rentals and try to sell it... 

as for LOC warehouse lines prior to the GFC those were widely available.. now a days I think the chance of a start up getting one is remote at best unless the owners have monster balance sheets and are going to of course personally guarantee. hedge fund type companies out of NY entered the space when local community banks use to dominate it.. prior to the GFC I had 5 warehouse lines with banks Local to the Portland Or metro area..

prior to that you could retail houses in south Jackson normal fix flip sell to first time home buyer.. we would get 80 to 100k for them .. then you had massive movement of section 8 renters out of the storm transferred the entire social scene there and it became renter dominated and you could no longer do fix and flip retail .. very sad situation actually. 

There is such a thing as being "fake scrupulous"and it sounds like you are letting you fear dominate this.