Many investors benefited from the huge run up in values from 2018-2022.

if you can "pay the HELOC off aggressively," then you should just... save up a down payment. 

A question I have been pondering within myself for some time and figured here would be a good place to get an answer.I currently own a home that has close to 100k in equity in it, we plan to move in 3-5 years to our long term house and would be sizing up a fair amount.So my question is should I use the equity to fund investments/projects, or should I save it and roll it all into my next house so I can have it paid off sooner/lower my monthly.

However these are probably not move in ready, so you might have to do renovations and you don't recover that.HOA liens are risky and you likely get wiped out at some point.I'd say mitigate your risk by NOT buying condo foreclosures, but neighborhood HOA foreclosures where the HOA dues are more like 400-$600/year, so maybe you pick these up for $1500 and live in a $300,000-$400,000 house for a year rent free. 

Some lenders may sell that they don't charge points but have several points worth of fees to make up for it.3.

So there is a miss-match and you end up paying more then you should.This, if true (I think it is), now makes some sense.

Agents' five-year olds are warming up their iPads to respond right now.

What did Syracuse do to end up on this list?

It's worth checking out at least :) Also, there's a lot of meet up groups involving real estate in the greater Seattle area, where you could network to learn more information as well.

if bigger pockets partnered with hospitable, does that mean we can sign up for free?