I can use that equity down the road to leverage from financial institutions and private lenders alike.

Why would you ever just search a county when you can search the whole nation for the same cost??

If you need help along the way (which you likely will) just ask your mentor - BP Nation!

You would also impose a national cost of $170 billion per year just to comply with tax rules.Then you would take a whole army of bright young people, who could have been doing something productive like discovering a cure for cancer, and make them tax accountants and IRS agents.

Sorry for the confusion @Nichole Gabriel - WeBuyHouses.com is a national brand and marketing system for RE investors.

The larger regionals to national banks usually won't have time for it.In commercial one the loans hit 1 million a bunch of loan avenues open up for you from competing lenders.

It does boast a nationally recognize hospital (Riverside, which is associated with Rush) so has good healthcare.

(I have been buying properties cash, then refinancing, butI am limited by my funds to very small properties.)I went to a local national bank (since my local lenders can't give loans in Georgia), and was pretty much told that "no one" will give a HELOC on an investment property.

Originally posted by Wayne Woodson:I got these numbers by surveying different rehabbers in my area and nationally.

Welcome to BP Nation Brett.