When I wrote to them about it, they responded: "Our Opportunity Fund is filed pursuant to Regulation D of the Securities Act, which requires investors to be accredited." 

It takes a total of 10 minutes to fill out and fax.Check the website of the gas/electric company to see if that option exists.

There is a lot to know in advance of actually investing including studying your state landlord tennat regulations, market values, market rents, appreciation etc.

Around here, our city won't really raise issues with anything that's been existing (I sold a house that literally the entire porch was technically in city property and it's never been an issue) so most buyers and sellers don't care about the survey unless the property lines aren't clear.

A cash-out refinance will reduce your current cash flow on the existing properties.

The biggest issue I see is the existing dry rot and the 60k lien from KYHCA.

I live in a very rural area where properties can be 1-2 hours from the neighbors and in remote locations, particularly up in the mountains where cell phone signals don't exist.

Weighing if I should upgrade my existing HVAC and rent a 1 bedroom condo that I live in now near NYC or sell. 

Weighing if I should upgrade my existing HVAC and rent a 1 bedroom condo that I live in now near NYC or sell.

@Jeff Mills, here are few options:- borough from 401K (up to 50% or $50k)- use existing credit card 0% BT offer (for personal CC - I don’t go over 30% of available credit, for some business cards, that don’t report on my personal credit I do 100%).