Although I still may have over paid for this property, I’m not worried because I plan to hold on to it for the next 50+ years.

In terms of timeline, don't plan for it to be a fast process, your rockstar local loan officer will not be processing the assumption, it'll be a group of call center people reading scripts from a computer screen.

Together with my personal funds I can pull around $600K of equity for the first deal.The thing is, I was never involved in the entire closing process on a property, from A-Z, myself.

Of course the bank says "no problem", I start the process etc, then after credit pull and everything state "thing's have changed and you cannot own more than 3 investment properties" so now I'm at a standstill and they want to push me to commercial side, which in this case is requiring them to take my first and have to refi the balance and lose my rate and then tap a HELOC afterwards at commercial terms.

We're selling a duplex we own and plan on buying a house that also operates as a business.

For example, I found a property manager who charges $10/month to process the payment from the tenant, charges fees on processing late fees and charges for tenant screenings.

Hello All,We recently bought a new primary residence using a HELOC and we now plan on selling our former one.

Legal is read by the crier ( which are usually process server companies who do this as an income source no sherrif present)...

It was a more 'manual' process and took some customization, but got the job done. 

Trying to avoid having too many transitions in carpet to hardwood/vinyl flooring and plan on doing LVP throughout the entire unit, bedrooms and bathroom included.