The obvious thing to do is to sell and take the tax free gains, then any excess gains are passive and can be offset by creating passive losses via investing in more real estate and doing cost segregations.

Obviously HELOC would make more sense now.

Obviously they were most likely not deals and this would save him a lot more the a few thousand, but I would still be skeptical.  

Right now you have a 110k house (i'm guessing completely on its value obviously).

Obviously, ESA letter (if legitimate) gets them around the dog age, but what about spaying/neutering? 

The other thing is to make your sign on the street be very noticeable and very obvious that you have a space available.

As a former hipster (before the word existed) this actually probably true, but for obvious reasons. 

I obviously cant say that directly in the platform chat, but I've still had a few eventually find my direct site and book there.

Obviously, the passive nature, but you can find an operating partner and you wouldn't need to give up control.

Hey @Andy Gibson The upside is fairly obvious (i.e relavitvely immediate funding etc. etc.); the larger drawbacks of course are lost investment gains in the plan and potentially needing to repay the loan balance in full if circumstances change, among others.