We are looking at AL, TN or FL as potential first time investment properties and so far this company looks the best and the numbers they sent seem great as well, but I would some more insight if anyone has any. 

So, I was about to do a HELOC and Refi with my Companies Credit Union, but there are stipulations on what the HELOC can be used for, I was told, "you cant use the HELOC to buy a business or another home."

Multifamily Millionaire Book Bundle – BiggerPockets Bookstore I think by reading those you'll get a better sense of where you want to focus on multifamily and from there you can continue your focus on what type of analytics/underwriting makes sense.

I have been seeing prices dropping and I'm wondering if this is just a momentary reprieve or are we going to see them continue to slide down for awhile longer. 

Our property management company did not accept TurboTenant applications because their screening process is not as thorough as we prefer.

.- Maintenance when tenants are staying, what you said is doable too, the only pain fall that I am seeing is to trust the maintenance company and do a recurrent inspection.- Urgent maintenance issues, this is the most tricky part, in my case I have 3 of these situation and the go-to contractor didn't even answer the phone, so I had to find someone else, so made many calls to get this sorted quickly.One of my investors lives in Chicago and found that the house was destroyed when the tenant left so his wife came to Dallas for 2 months to fix everything so they can put back in rent. 

While house hacking your first year, continue to learn and study as much as you can.

We also opened a Holding company in WY.

If mold is found the company or persons who performed the testing will have a protocol on how it should remediated based on the type of mold found.

Zillow, apartments.com, outreach to local companies that common sense suggests would have project based 1-3 month employees.