We knew he was a frustrated seller who did not want his time wasted again How did you finance this deal?

Full time flight nurse and pay/schedule is allowing me to dabble in the world of real estate.  

If you're 50/50 on whether to do it, I would encourage you to self-manage your first few rentals and then when it becomes too much of a time commitment turn it over to 3rd party management.

Next time, it is 100% on them.

Resulting in us paying this HELOC back slowly for time being.

And at the same time as you mention the cost is close to the same as Boston and you don't make as much $ as a developer. 

I have found many people on here are willing to answer questions and share their time.

I will be leasing a commercial property for the first time, it is a small retail space in Northern California.

The only time the market ever crashed in Miami seriously was because there was mortgage fraud going on and then the mortgage industry was regulated.

These are all things you need to do some homework on and figure out.In terms of BRR and flipping.Flipping makes you more money now.But BRR gives you the opportunity to invest, recoup your investment, have heavy depreciation tax write offs & build a portfolio which PAYS YOU IN YOUR SLEEP.You only have so much time to work, but the need for housing will consistently increase as our population is outpacing or supply of housing year after year.