I’ve pondered buying a cheaper 100k rental cash to essentially fund a personal home mortgage if I could find one.

I see some investors in the central Florida area happy with break-even since they are looking for appreciation and on the other side, I also see investors looking for PI mortgage payment to be 50% of market rent so they can cash flow right away.

It needs to be your online persona, your identifier, your alter ego, your business card.Follow up NINE times?

The plan is to use the funds to purchase that first rental and begin flipping some houses along the way to pay down the mortgage on that long term rental, rinse and repeat. 

I’ve pondered buying a cheaper 100k rental cash to essentially fund a personal home mortgage if I could find one.

Even if you don't use a dollar of it, the bank will look at it as if you have 100k of debt.Getting a HELOC and doing a cash out refi can actually be trickier than just getting a mortgage.

I want to protect myself and my family from an increased mortgage through refinancing later.

If I do decide to flip, the focus would be to pay off mortgages to have more money coming in monthly.I have a single family house that I own in Stanwood which is being rented and that pays the mortgage for my home in Big Rapids.

Look for Washington Landlords on line.

Let me guess your "team" doesn't actually own any investment real estate and you learned about investing off an online guru?