I prefer RentecDirect as it is more user friendly in my opinion.

I am offering the limited partners a preferred return plus 50/50 of the financial benefit in the property, I.e. the cash flows, appreciation, and depreciation benefits.How do I keep it so that I am the only personal guarantor while keeping my investors interest secured in the property?

I think the right answer is based on your personal preferences, goals, skills, abilities, and resources.

Just out of curiosity, do you prefer to live in the top half of your duplex or the bottom half?

I am now the asset manager (manage the management company) and for all of this I get a percentage of the equity from the deal after a preferred return is given to my investor.

There are plenty of those "Top 10 Areas to Invest in" articles that I can surely follow (not really), but I'd prefer to determine and do the research on my own.  

You can set notifications for your or other's preferred houses.

I prefer the HELOC because you don't pay interest on it until you actually take the money out.

As a beginner I prefer to buy rental units within 20 miles from my house since I prefer to manage it myself for now and I'm quite handy as well:).I saw 2 legal multifamily rental unit on the main road, good location in Nassau county long island NY currently vacant.

@Jared Rine,Which lenders do you prefer to work with in this type of scenario?