Personal background: Married with no kids, 100% debt free, live a rather tame lifestyle and don't spend large amounts of money, two newer vehicles (2020 & 2024) so no vehicle purchases expected for the next 10 years. 

It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits.

Quote from @Nicholas Dillon: Basic math on a napkin.When you cash out the equity, you borrow it from the bank.

It seems like it basically up to you to do the math on how much more you will potentially make selling each unit individually and then deciding if that extra $$$ is worth the number of extra hours you will spend.

ya were we live ( personal resi) we have humungus doug fir trees 100 plus fee tall basically surrounding out lot and if one of those falls on your house it can destroy the house and if your really unlucky it can squash you..

- You can Google this, but sales & rentals slow down once kids go back to school.

The deals that I am doing right now though, I am basically getting the land for free, and building on, refinancing all the cash out at the end, and keeping the rental for basically no money into it. 

I have about 8K to start investing, which I know is not a lot, but with 3 kids living in SoCal, we are already pinching pennies.

So they basically did rental arbitrage on your property for 7 years and then walk away. 

Basically you stay working there and rollover funds into another qualified plan.