I appreciate any input in advance.Not only are helocs harder to find for investment properties, what you intend to do with the money matters.

Meeting them puts a face to the name and forms a human connection... you're not just after there money. 2) Provided them with a rental application.

Our cleaner had to spend 10 hours to clean the whole house!

Also, the seller wants me to set the closing date on the contract to June 28th instead of our original closing date, which was August 17th, because she wants to receive the money in a timely manner to pay her back taxes.

So, yes investors have been using creative or private money financing. 

Are you willing to commit time and money to a house that Realtors have passed over because it wouldn’t be profitable for them to spend time on?  

My goal is to get into investing where I can grow my portfolio just outside of the Kansas City Metro and eventually leave my W-2 job to spend more time with my kids.

Make money, save money, buy a house in a neighborhood they believed in, manage it well, and hold it forever.

Yes, I don't want to waste time, but I also don't want tenants wasting their money.

It's another form of borrowing money.