Best use of real estate equity in today's market

[Kaushik Sarkar]

We have multiple single family homes on rental with stable tenants. Currently our rental real estate equity portfolio is somewhere in the range of $1.8 - $2M. Looking for ideas on how to leverage this equity to advance our investment portfolio.

In the current high interest market, is home equity loan still reasonable?

Should we think of Short term rental? ( some of our homes qualify in those counties)

Ideas on diversification outside of real estate?

Looking out for suggestions