Growing a high yield fruit tree is different from harvesting it.

@Joseph Cacciapaglia  I might sell 1-2 out of my portfolio this year to harvest equity to reinvest later in the year, not to "run from COVID". 

Loss harvesting or low tax positions first2.

People figure it out.I can't predict the future, but I can think through my game theory alternatives.The home equity I harvested by selling my San Jose home in 2015 is $X.

WHILE right now you ALSO focus on getting leads via DDM, PPC (any ways where your website is still reeling in leads by driving traffic to your site).The latter will get you deals right now, and the second your site is harvesting leads, you can eliminate DMM or PP (if you wanted) and never have to pay for a lead again.It is like you said... all about smart efficient working your business.

How big do you need your business to be before you start harvesting the fruits of your labor?

The investment looks like:- a 4.5% cap rate (assuming 30 opex ratio) -that would be debt service coverage ratio constrained so likely 40% equity and 60% debt-low cash on cash rate initially (2% )- high rent growth 4%+ - high exit sale priceThe property won't cash flow significantly but the IRR much higher than the cap rate of 4.5%It's a low risk, moderate return investment.You're still making money but you need to be patient and need to wait to harvest value from the resale.

I have replanted thousands of acres of timber land we harvested.. you replant at 300 tree's to the acre with the hopes that you have a 20% survival rate.. like anything you can buy different sizes and quality of replant tree's we always chose the 3 and 1s  ..

Enjoy the house,  give your kids a great experience with good schools and and a safe environment, they grow up, they go away, get married and leave you with a big house to sell and harvest the equity you built up, and then you move to Florida and wait to go meet God, while playing golf and hanging out on the beach.

And my experience managing a sales prospects in a different industry was that using CRM software was worth the time and effort.I'm willing to lay out the capital to employee someone hunting for deals for as long as 2-3 years before "harvesting" any prospects - if necessary.