I've just very briefly touched upon a couple, and I'd encourage you to read through what interests you on these.In regards to syndication, there isn't an "average" to be doing this. 

What if I do HELOC on couple of those properties and take that money and pay for this new home.

Never used or heard of them, but have used a couple different HM lenders. 

I purchased my first absentee owner list from listsource a couple days ago.

A couple of questions that still bother me though: isn't the mortgage monthly payment gonna eat all income here in SD considering putting down only 5 - 10 % down?

I "found" it about a week ago while inputting the terms for a new lease... then a couple days ago I received an email about the "new feature".

This is an older couple and they don’t really want to do much by way of providing the information.This would be my first actual investment and would love to get some partners involved but all I have as of right now is a lead

For a couple reasons:1.

My tenants filled out an application and have only 1 email address for the couple (yes, I know they are free but this is not the 1st time I have encountered this as an agent).  

I calculated that if we could pay $300 on top of the mortgage each month, we could have enough equity built up by year 2-3 to refinance out of the FHA loan to a conventional loan.Key Factors... 30 year mortgage, 4.25% interest rateI'm still thinking about getting a 15yr fixed rate, payment would just be higher, but mandatory as wellSo, I have a couple questions. 1.