Many experienced investors say they wish they would have gone bigger sooner. 

LLCs might be something to look into sooner rather than later.

The thought was I would have rather had the tenants pay it off sooner, rather than get into another 15 year mortgage.This is why I am here asking questions, I'm looking for advice on what you guys would do.

Sooner, perhaps, depending on the outcome of the 2018 elections, which is a factor on why I think this will become law now.

We're leaving that option open, for the next purchase, which may be sooner than later because our home value has increased in our area.

Things will change and some of your offers will get accepted 'later' rather than 'sooner'.

The sooner the better.

I work fulltime, but all of my spare time is spent either at the gym, in a book, or my most recent addiction is on bigger pockets.

I am looking to get into my first deal sooner rather then later.

If you are all in at 175k and get a heloc for 90%, that would let you pull out 35k in cash......Not sure what kind of numbers you're currently looking at for flipping (150k homes, 250k homes, 600k homes, etc), but getting chunks of money like 35k might be a good start to helping you re-capitalize pretty quickly.I would rather lock in that buy and hold property sooner rather than later though.