I stay away from curtains as they can get dirty easily but I update the shades themselves to something nicer (plantation or shutter like shades or good quality roll down shades - black out in the bedroom).

Perhaps you could roll the housing equity into a smaller business.

Upon logging into my Stessa account, I discovered that all my property rent rolls, and transaction history from the past two years had disappeared.

Next steps are to put down a roll of plastic to prevent moisture or wet floors. 

Yes I think I should explore around , pick a market and see how things roll .

Then maybe you are able to roll that money into a downpayment on another primary and an investment property.As for whether you should be looking for a loan for the work vs. paying for it out of pocket.

The way I'm looking at it, if my spouse and I only do employer matching for the 10 years we would have more than enough in there and still 10 years out from being able to access it.I do plan on doing 401k loans for deals if the numbers check out, and I've considered rolling over some of our 401ks into roth IRAs to access our contributions but we'd have to pay taxes out of pocket (a big hit to cash flow) and we couldn't touch it for 5 years.  

If you include the costs to build in a purchase of the primary structure, then you can typically roll that into the final loan product.

Question, I'm rolling through listings, and of course I see a bunch of rehabs that are identical.

The fear of unknown and the bad potentials, but then sh_t happens and ya remember that we got a choice to lay down and be done in by it or roll-up the sleeves and get to work and be a solution maker.