Regardless of what you do, the important part is you always need to plan for being able to cover the cost of the interest of the money borrowed via HELOC.

And as per the above post, it's all diversions and lies when it comes to getting status of your investment.

Real estate investment touches on a lot of different elements, so what is missing for you? 

Oddly enough, the two of them always make fun of people investing in homes saying how they've never lost money on land.

Keep in mind that, depending on where you invest, "Source of Income" could be a protected class.

Columbus is an awesome market to invest in.

What investment strategy is most common/best for someone with a remodeling/contracting background?

It IS much tougher to invest in the UK if you are going to flip for several reasons: 1.)

Quote from @Kaleb Foster: Investment Info:Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

I personally don't like investing in real estate via a retiremant account plan unless you have a large balance in your retirement account plan($500,000+ but ideallty $1,000,000).Investing in real estate with a retirement account plan is not simple - You need to have reserves in your retirement account plan to account for renovation work.