I am not sure who you are using as your Realtor but I would reach out to a Anthony Wong who specializes in investment rentals or buyig the right primary that can be converted to a rental that will cash flow.

@John Williams politicians at all levels of government are taking away landlord property rights to protect slum-tenants.We'll soon be like Ontario, Canada where they can't charge application fees or security deposits and it takes 12 months to evict a tenant.Unfortunately, landlords are too cheap to make political donations to stop the madness:(

If you decide the terms for a home equity loan are more favorable compared to the HELOC then it's just a matter of knowing exactly how much you need for closing on a specific property because you don't want to get stuck paying on debt that you aren't planning on using right away.

Right across the river from Cincinnati, I see this market as a hidden gem (biased, yes.

It's slow out there for a lot of trades in SA right now and I'm not one to gatekeep.

May want to post a reddit/syndication threadGenerally speaking Paul you are not wrong but these two portfolios have equity left. 

Despite the home not being in terrible condition, they left a bunch of trash and old furniture behind.We knew that if we could keep the renovation budget at $40k, we could keep the sales price under $300k.

The contractor I hired to paint interior of home has left it incomplete.

BUT.. his deals he stabilizes and sells right away to juice his IRR and that is just the model.

If you own it, maybe you can talk to city/local office to see if you have any right to restrictions for use if others are creating hazards on it.