Of course the devil's in the details of timing and reinvestment.

Expect to have collateral in the form of cash, income...and of course the house itself. youre not borrowing everything you need either.

And of course a better bonus when you close a deal to keep them incentivized.

I'm sure you can call around for estimates, of course.

Of course you don’t want to count on appreciation but it’s probably safe to say that in another 10-20 years the values will be up from today.

I took a real estate course at NYU and one of the professors specialized in people who owned properties for a long time, can't sell it because of capital gains, and prefers to hold on to it to death so that their kids would inherit capital tax free.

I would of course immediately call that lender directly (if I weren't myself a lender then I'd have my agent make this call; good agents have strong "the lender is throwing spaghetti at the wall" BS detectors) and drill down on how many 100% CLTV commercial loans said lender has done in the last couple years, and ask for property addresses so I (or my agent) could validate from public records (which takes ~5 seconds for a RE agent or lender to look up).

Of course, your return gets lowered, but that is the problem with simply looking for more cash flow. 

Judge of course realized it was just to get money and dismissed her case.

He's been traveling all over and spending a good deal of money to take courses, go to conferences, etc but the overall sentiment I get from him I think is half of the answer to your question.He, as well as those you describe, is basically on a quest for "The Perfect and Best Way" to invest.