I would also recommend reading David Greene's book, Long Distance Real Estate Investing.

Barring a dramatic change in law, I would expect this method to help real estate investors avoid the “LLC lending problem” for the foreseeable future.

If you plan to put new blinds in this rental, or if you have similar blinds in your other rentals, maybe save some of the hardware from the broken blinds before you toss them - particularly the tilt rod (the long plastic thing you spin to tilt the slats), the plastic cones or pulls on the ends of the operating strings, and maybe the buttons or plugs on the bottom of the bottom bar that hold the lift strings to the bottom.When I bought my rental, it had blinds everywhere that were mostly in OK shape, but some of them were missing the above items, and I couldn't source them locally as individual parts. 

(Barring any appreciation which is impossible to know.

For the DIY route, David Greene has a book out a lot of people read. 

(David Greene is the man - his meetups have been very fun and very informative).My goal is to purchase and rent my first single family home in the Columbus area by the end of the year.

Check out David Greene's book on long-distance investing.

How are people using HELOC's to afford these deals and still come out in the green?

@David Greene @Brandon Turner I know I’m not the only one who needs help with the third R in BRRRR.

I want to live in a more metro area, I've grown up in suburbia TN my whole life and would KILL to be able to bike/walk to a restaurant or bar from my house and Nashville is too expensive.