Do you have any recommendations on cheaper alternatives to agents...mostly just someone to help us through the legal paperwork and make sure everything is legit.

My personal interpretation:mortgages on the building you use as your own office or your own warehouse - 100% to qualifymortgages on the rental properties that you had leased out prior to Feb 15 - 80% chance to qualifymortgages on the properties not yet placed in service by Feb 15 (as in HML case) - 20% chance to qualifyI would not advise my clients to take this chance if they have an alternative way to qualify for forgiveness.

Ideally for a rental property, you want to attract quality tenants that are reliable and dependable, that’s a complete topic on its own.

Just another alternative :)

I am a contractor so this house is an attractive deal for me as the circumstances can work. 

Within an organization, you can temper that to some extent by creating an attractive enough opportunity that it would be difficult for the person to replace it elsewhere, but by and large your employees will almost always fall into one of two camps:1.

You also, in general, get a different type of tenant for a 6 plex/apartment vs. single family house.A single family house will attract families, multi generational families, boy friend/girl friend with his, hers, and/or theirs kids for the most part.Apartments attract single people, recent divorcees, starting out couples, students. 

or single family)- close monitoring of initial investment, minimal money down2) BRRRR in Denver area if feasible, considering out of state- Focus right now is getting pre-approved for FHA financed property and close on an attractive deal.

Are there other alternatives besides heloc and cash out refi?

Since then, I've been doing a lot of reading/research and I'm attracted by the opportunities that real estate offers.