Once you've thought a bit about what your ideal wholistic investment portfolio looks like, if you decide that you want some kind of more active real estate investing in the mix, I cannot recommend more getting Start with Strategy by Dave Meyer and the accompanying workbook The Strategy Planner.

Others have decided not to move at all.

Instead of refinancing our portfolio, decided to sell our holdings that were out of state to capitalize on the stellar appreciation.

In the end, you have to decide the cost / benefit / risk / reward of doing one makes sense in your situation.COST - You have outlined some of the costs, but not all. 

If you decide to exit real estate entirely, just make sure whatever investment path you choose aligns with your goals and risk tolerance.

Whether the lender decides to do anything, and exactly what they decide to do depends on the lenders particular strategy, target ROI, risk tolerance, current interest rates, interest rate of subject mortgage loan, etc. 

I'm planning on flying over, just trying to gather info right now and trying to decide where to start.Have a great day!

A coworker mentioned they learned how to invest in real estate using the Bigger Pockets website so I decided to check it out to see what it was all about.

I'm struggling a little bit on deciding the best agreement to make sure I can get some cash flow, payback the HELOC, and not drive the new mortgage up too much with the Refi out of the HELOC.

Giovanni, Congrats on deciding to go to the next level.