So I continue to pay tHE MoRTGAGE AS usUAL?

Found a couple realtors that had similar mindsets, networked with other investors, made offers on auctions, reo's, wholesalers, and continued to grind.   

I would like to meet up with like minded investors to continue to hone my my investing skills and look for potential partners. pleas share amy recommendations?

(Your loan was for a flip, and presumably for a business purpose, which means the San Francisco Federal Reserve bank rate also plays into this.

I'm preparing for my first local buy here, now that I've lived here for 2 years.  I am looking for a 4 or higher multi-family off the pennisula, or possibly a solid foreclosure in james island / west ashley for a shor...

There are too many possible variants to play that game.  

@Jeremy Mattson, I have missed and continue to miss good buying opportunities because of a lack of funds. 

If you are happy with the cashflow once you rent out the fourth unit, I vote HELOC and leverage for a few reasons:-You don't pay taxes on the equity you use from a HELOC-Closing costs are free-You get to keep the property and continue to appreciate.

Are there any we are still doing it this way but don't see the trend continuing much longer?  

So my tenant said "OK, if that's the way you want to play it, you're illegally running a rooming house, I know others do it in the neighborhood, put they respect their neighbors.