I am also considering to go to Home Depot or Lows to get familiar with costs of material by myself and also get contacts of various contractors or handymans from my area so that I can just quick give them a call later and find out potential cost by discribing situations.

Assuming your credit is good, you have the required down payment, you income qualify, etc, for an investment property the rates should be in the low-to-mid 5's for a 30 year fixed for a 1-4 unit residential property. 

@Darrick Lowe who says HELOC rates are lower if it is a rental?

Low-cost index funds in your desired asset allocation.  4% withdrawal rate.  

I live in a huge 3 bedroom apartment, paying $1,500 a month and my overall monthly expenses are low. 

I call a service for that.The biggest issue that holds people back is a low risk tolerance brought upon them by some paranoid delusion.If you educate yourself enough, you can wind up living your dreams rather than dreaming to live.

Great thing is the low taxes!  

Anything higher means rents are too low.

Pro: It's Cheap, they actually use good photographers.Con: Inexperienced low paid agents that dont know what they are doing.

I was looking up different ways to finance a rental property but it appears that a lot of the low money down loans require you to live at the Property.