Oh come on Drew, doesn't Cracker jacks send along all knowledge and wisdom of all things real estate along with their license. 

I have saved up a decent amount of capital in an account to dedicate to rental property investing but have not yet put anything to work as I’m still relatively green on the industry and want to make sure I’m in a good place knowledge wise and capital wise before doing so.

Is this a wise choice?

also is it wise to max leverage the potential property? 

Wise Mom.

Is it wise to tap into my HELOC. 

For pricing wise we are waiting for appraisal to see if we can use our financial contingency to do some final negotiation. 

Put them to work — wisely.

And then were there......So as I have been saying for years, the absolute GARBAGE BS being put out by assorted wanna-b YT "gurus" telling wanna-b investors to "hold tight" some whatever half baked cracker jack theory of a 30% housing collapse is "imminent" is utter prairie frisbee's (rolling with your cattle theme). 

Quote from @Emanuel Stafilidis: Quote from @James Wise: Quote from @Emanuel Stafilidis: Most investors hear “50K house” and immediately assume chaos.Bad tenants.