What does scare me are hidden fees or liens on the property I cannot currently see. 

My title company has told me that it is impossible to do a simultaneous closing using only the end-buyers’ money to fund the transaction on a wholesale deal as they say it is considered a “dry closing” and is illegal in the state of Virginia.Someone from the title company also told me that there is a limit on the number of assignment deals that you can do before you are forced to get a real estate license or it is considered brokering without a license.

Does it make sense to have someone come in full time on salary to take off a lot from your plate for you to do more deals? 

Shannon,I have some customers that purchased in and around Salisbury, NC and they have found some good deals in terms of purchase price to cash flow ratio on investment rentals.

I saw on some sites that you can get this with the tax number, but I'm not sure if I can find that online or how to find that....

With the little knowledge that I have on this method, I started building it as if they were flipping a property... - They put in 2/3 of the money- Monthly payouts of 50% of profits- 4 month termBased on the pro forma of the rental, they'd have around a 30-35% roi by the end of the term.

But the landmine BOI policy will be here to capitalize on parts of the business community that don’t take advantage 

.- Investors are less worried about vacancies, focusing on financing costs (35%) and home prices (33%).- 22% faced rental insurance hikes of 11% or more, and 50% saw property tax increases of over 6%.- Conventional loans remain the top financing option (44%).Give it a full read on our BiggerPockets Blog

I'd like to access this equity through a Home Equity Loan (HEL) and use it to make downpayment on another investment property purchase (12 unit bldg).I bought this 4-plex in my personal name with a conventional mortgage .

Thanks Ned, Short answer to explain it, I did not know they were around back then, just found out now when we are coming back, a little background, when I started in 2005, I was a child :) 28 years old and thought I knew it all, all, all :), did not know about hard money lending, only new about bank loans, and Home equity lines of credit, did not know where to find more money, since I did not have much, I would rely on what I could get from banks, loans, credit cards and was not always that great, it was a learning experience.....and Wholesalers, I did not know that even existed, everything I would find back then was already on the market and through a "friend" agent, MLS, FMLS and all those, nothing like what we have today.