This way I was able to keep the budget extremely lean.

I also leaned heavily on others for real day to day experience.

@Marquelle Smith I’ve leaned more towards online digital marketing.

I have 2 tenents that would live there for at least a year while I make minor renovations to the property before I eaither lease or sell the property(leaning more towards leasing while the market is in a recession).

@Hannah Krebs, I'm leaning toward flip for several reasons:I'm quite skeptical that you can get $2200/month rent.

Yes maybe in the near future, more people may gravitate towards SFH rentals but it will be temporary if at all will happen because:a) a lot of folks have lost and continue to lose their jobs, so they have to consider what's affordableb) apartments offer many more conveniences (granted these aren't available right now), but people like to have access to the: pools, gyms, pet parks and etc...2) consider geo area where you plan to invest.

I also do have a separate heloc account on another rental, which is why I’m leaning toward the cash out, slightly higher rate.  

I would lean more on local lenders.

I’m still in the learning stages, been following the webinars for about 6 weeks and reading a lot of books - leaning towards house hacking as my first move.

It seems that it would have been a lot more convenient for you although it costs a couple of hundred bucks.I closed on a hard money loan last week for one of our REOs.