You have received excellent feedback. 

Beckie - You can ask your CPA for his/her suggestion, but I think the biggest item is to track your payments (from LLC to personal) on an excel file and make note at the end of the year of the interest versus principle paid on the HELOC (which the bank should give you during year end statements) - in that way, you may be able to write off some of the interest.

But that’s when you need to push yourself and an excellent way of doing that is recalling what marathon runners call “Reaching into Your Cookie Jar”.

I was listening to a housing expert on the news the other day and he brought up an interesting point.  

I'm just over the cusp of Excellent Credit and don't want one pull by one lender [refi lender and/or HELOC lender] to only to have it fall just under excellent once the second lender pulls - to ultimately prevent any potential interest rate increase.Thank you so much for your time. 

cut your "cashflow" in half for vacancies,n capex and repairs...thats how banks will judge it plus assuming property management, thats the bad news. good news?...

The good news in this market of not many great deals is that you are not ready to buy yet.

This is big news for this corridor of Austin.  

I read an astounding article today regarding rent increases in Prince Edward Island.https://ca.yahoo.com/news/forged-lease-document-leads-house-204956798.htmlEssentially if a tenant leaves a unit and you rent to a new tenant.. you can only increase the rent by the % set by the province.   

Good news, nonpayment is the one way to always successfully evict!