The only issue I've found is that it's hard to find a lender willing to provide a HELOC in second position (behind your initial mortgage) for an investment property.

I am on the outskirts of Raleigh looking to get more into Foreclosure's for investments and wondering if anyone know where to find the list of Lis Pendens for Wayne, Johnston, Wake and other surround counties.

Labor is in short supply now especially tradespeople.

You could do that for 3-5% down.. live in it for a year to meet typical requirements for use… then move into a new house, and ‘voila’ - you bought your second (multi-family) rental for 3-5% down instead of 20-25%.It is entirely possible though that you will face debt to income issues on your first rental if your lender wants to see a year or twos worth of rental history before counting your rental income to offset your debt payments…so beware of that.Otherwise you may have to look at creative financing… maybe bringing in a money person where it was a short term investment for them, like “I’ll give you 8% on your money (versus the 4-5,% you could earn from the bank CD) if you will partner with me on this purchase.”

I was just curious if anyone invests in STR's in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Would love to hear from investment centric lenders as to what the best strategies are and what people are doing! 

New to real estate investing so any help/recommendations means more than you know :) Does anyone know what would be the easiest or most efficient way to go about getting a new quadplex built in the Greater Atlanta/surrounding area?

The LLC is created to protect your personal assets and to separate your personal business from your investment business.  

Best of luck investing

In short, not really.I set up a system with direct to tenant meter billing to avoid the overhead of a relationship with an EV service provider.