I've setup a couple basic alerts, mainly Sacramento.

I definitely thought about those things as well (everything really IS bigger and also, what areas would attract more people to live or rent a tiny home).

The main thing is not to use the HELOC for long term funds because you don't want to continue paying the interest on it if you can prevent it.

Main goal to create some passive income and see just how far I can go with it.

Mainly I mean that he was terrible to deal with through his tenancy, and gave me grief every chance he got.  

This is a tricky question, mainly because it depends on what you are looking for in a property.

I believe my main focus will be on houses that are between 2-3 bedrooms with less than 1500 square feet as I would like to keep as much of the effort "in-house" as possible, as well as keeping purchase prices around $20K and selling prices around $60-80K, with renovation costs at between $10-20K for materials as well as a new roof with a contractor- unless I start putting on my own steel roofs which I can do myself.

Hello Hanna  Yeah, back when I found BP the first thing I did was listening to mostly all f the main Podcast. 

However, the tenant quality (so I am told) for a 2/2 is significantly higher, while a 3/2 is more likely to attract three separate renters (i.e. a flop house). 

The main issue is finding real deals.