Property rich cash poor

[John Lupo]

Good Evening everyone. isn't bigger pockets the best thing to come around  for newbie real estate investors almost feels like I am cheating,,, so many good people with good information.wish I would have found it sooner and now that I been here for about a month I don't feel so nervous and shy to ask questions. 

I am trying to figure what would be the most profitable way to utilize some equity I have acquired . I have an 11 unit apartment building located  in a rent control area on Los Angeles worth about 1.7 mil  we owe 200k at 3 percent to family member, and We have another property worth about 525 k there is a Heloc of 365 k, and on our primary residence we owe about 565 k and it's worth about 1.7 mil .

My question is which would be the best loan to pay off first. Or would it be wise to pull money out of the primary residence to pay off Heloc ? 

I have been working with one bank for 10 months  ( we have been members of this bank for over 25 years )  the underwriters are so slow I have given up on them I have a credit score of 740 but I guess being self employed is the problem.

What I am trying to do is get a down payment to purchase more property , or possible something more creative basically I feel I have some equity buy I just don't have the knowledge yet to  capitalize on the properties equity.

If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it