I'm not familiar with those areas but if you have the full street address I'd be happy to generate some Neighborhood Profiles for you. 

It would also help if you added a profile picture and completed more of your profile.  

Eddie Speed has good stuff, too and he's (from what I understand) closed somewhere in the area of 30,000 + notes in his career-- pretty impressive.But also, if you click through to my profile and company info, you will be lead to a lot of free information about the note business-- investing, brokering, marketing, etc which may well be useful to you in learning about the business.

One crowdfunding platform recently did a raise for a high-profile hotel/resort.

Make sure you don't miss out on networking is by filling out your signature, profile and pming people with questions.Look forward to seeing you around!  

Normally you want to keep your DTI below 45%, however for the first 4 homes Freddie will go up to 50%, maybe higher depending on the profile (but I have not had much luck with that recently).In terms of the reserves from the HELOC, you can draw from that for the down payment and it probably won't affect your DTI much since the minimum payment due on the new balance is interest only. 

Enter a Profile Sheet into the MLS Listing Database 44.

These BP links will give you a place to start:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/9268...http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/9360...If you connect with me via my BP profile page, I can give you a list of some of the books that I have found useful.  

You can then go to your profile (Profile & Settings > Forums > Followed Discussions) and see all the threads you are monitoring. 

@Hattie DizmondI have been formulating goals and a long TO DO list for a few days, I posted my ideas in the Real Estate Goals and Currently seeking sections of my profile page, its not fully detailed out but this is my general game plan.