My boyfriend is very handy but I cannot rely on him all the time.What do you suggest I learn to fix/deal with before buying my first property?

I suppose I could have relied on cash to keep my credit pure, but I took a HELOC out ($200k) to manage my current developments.

By doing so, I've built a network strong enough to provide referral business which I rely on for 100% of non-family deals.When I first got my agent license, I focused on residential as almost everyone knows someone looking to buy or sell.

Being my 1st rental would it be wise to solely rely on travelers or would you put a long term in one and do travelers in the other.

The city doesn't actively enforce this, rather it relies on complaints, but still I don't like making investment choices based on hoping not to get caught. 

There is two things that I rely on when investing1.

The idea for me is to build an investor focused team where I can rely on their expertise instead of wasting time formulating my own.

And it's for the same reason as stated above -- banks loan money more easily to real estate investors who don't rely completely on their rental income.

There's lots of upward mobility, but I don't want to have to rely on a corporate job to support my family, due to some health issues I'll get into below.I currently own two (single family) rental properties that net me combined ~$950 dollars positive cashflow a month.

The nature of some of such markets is that the investor often has to rely on property values increasing in the future as the primary if not sole method of deriving any return from the investment.