If your plan is to use the card to help advance the material purchasing while waiting for draws, thats a valid reason to use a credit card, but I see too many inexperienced investors get crushed thinking they can use a credit card to cover the improvements or even the downpayment and I urge you to stay clear of this strategy.

Each investment strategy has its pros and cons, and the choice depends on individual goals, risk tolerance, and market conditions.

., but far as strategy, how-to, it's almost never a "this is the 1 way to do it".

I've never heard someone say they can't get the numbers they get in a major top 5 metro by investing in other places. what is your current strategy right now and typical deal? 

BRRR strategy.

Columbus is a great location to for almost all real estate investing strategies.

Note my investment strategy is first and foremost capital preservation.

The software nerd 5 levels up is the one who does the bulk data entry saying "if it's 2-4 unit, here's this hit, and if it's cash out, here's the hit for that," and so on.If, at the Fannie Mae level, some hit goes away, but "Johnny consumer" does not notice it, and they can leave it in there, and take that extra profit, I'm sure you can see why they might have an incentive to do that.

For instance, yesterday, weak economic data in Europe put downward pressure on rates globally and perceived dovish comments from Federal Reserve speakers allowed bonds to hold the gains.

@Mathew Morford what type of investing strategy are you planning on employing?