This is a great way to work yourself into a lower risk deal while maintaining your full time job.First step: House HackSecond step: Continue to increase your income and save while looking for great partners and refining your strategy going forward.Third step: After defining your strategy and finding partners with more experience, add more value than you take.Fourth step: Consistently and unemotionally pursue your's and your partner's goals.Hopefully this strategy will enable you to make progress while keeping you from rushing into anything you're not ready for.

Our current situation is that the HELOC balance enables us to go on 2-3 properties simultaneously if we're getting properties at say $30-70k a piece.To answer your question specifically - you won't do a HELOC on your investment property. 

My wife and I have been looking at and analyzing properties over the last several months, we are looking to acquire our first 2 unit rental property with the goal of producing enough passive income over the next several years to enable to us to become financially independent from our daily jobs. 

True, we live in a 'virtual' world, but photos, video walkthroughs or drone pix will not take the place of the actual tenant being inside the actual property they will actually be living in. 

The lawn is virtually non existent it’s about 4ft x 15ft next to the driveway.

For instance, would it be virtually impossible to use leverage in an IRA?

Have trained my VA in the phillipines, so they can send mail virtually.

These will not be set in stone but will enable you to get started.

Hi @Peter Siemsen curious if you found any locals in SB that are meeting virtually in this covid world?

It costs virtually nothing but time to get started, and it is a great way to build a reputation as a knowledge leader in your field.If you do not want to start your own blog, look for real estate sites that welcome contributor articles.