Anyone contemplating the types of services some of these providers offer (sometimes into the tens of thousands of dollars) should first be able to articulate why the services are needed and how they will benefit from them.

But ya have to make some educated prognostications in life.Add this to the information your processing - What your talking about doing is eliminating around $4000 or interest expense (which is deductible anyway so really could be a real impact of eliminating $2800 or so) of debt in exchange for paying over $10K in capital gains tax (don't forget possible state gains tax as well).  

The president has zero impact on underwriting guidelines and  zero direct control of interest rates. in fact the fed has no direct control of long term rates that effect mortgage rates.

Quote from @Kevin Lynch: Greetings,I'm excited to join the BiggerPockets community, though I've been an avid listener of the podcasts for some time now.

Hi Jon,I'm getting into the rental arbitrage in the next few months, I hope, after 2 years of working on an owner of a SFH right next next to my Airbnb rental.

Check it out if you havent already 

It may sound nice to pay a 6% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no additional fees.

HELOCs typically do not go above 75-80% of value and since the property was purchased recently they would not see that equity unless you did some major rehab to the property.

Hi Brant, glad to have you as part of this community! 

It consists of an 8 unit apartment building being sold with a single family home next door to it, each on their own parcel.