To access your home equity without selling, you can explore options like a home equity loan, a line of credit (HELOC), or a cash-out refinance.

It is a mobile home and I was able to get seller financing for half of the purchase price. 

@Frank Pyle yeah, this is pretty normal and the type of home you use isn't of consequence. 

Investment Info:Mobile home buy & hold investment.

It wouldn’t take much time with “steady” home prices for the graph to self correct. 4) I assume at least some of this is choice.

Yup thats just one guy and one example there is going to be some really bad stuff happen because of these so called trainers and again I lump everyone in to that so called trainer who is advocating this niche .. they should just keep it to themselves instead of making money selling how to do this.. its a trian wreck and a total stain on the industry..

If i sell my SFR rental for $450k and equity is, for example, $200k...Can i invest 100k into a new SFR worth $275k and invest the remaining 100k into a sponsored DST or TIC (which deals are usually multiple hundreds o...

The 1st position loan is paid off but has a second position heloc on the home with 50k balance.

One said the 2nd mortgage has to be assumable and the other said it did not.VA issued Circular #26­24­17 back in August to try and clear up the issue:Assumability: If the secondary borrowing is not assumable, the holder of the VA guaranteed loan should counsel the assumer that this may restrict their ability to sell the property to another creditworthy assumer through an assumption in the future.The lender currently servicing the loan still can decide whether or not they'll allow the 2nd.You could do seller financing for the gap and then refinance just that amount with a Home Equity Loan or Line of Credit at some point down the road. 

Also, when not occupied, the PITI on a high-end home can quickly erode prior cash flows.