Without these safety nets in place you WILL go belly up.

In the same way that my body still craves fats and sugars always, even though a glance at my waistline shows that it is not necessary to store up quickly-accessible energy, our minds and bodies do things to protect us even at a cost of our immediate thrival, and even when that need is outlivedThus my assertion that the primary reason that the masses don't clamor to all the locations that supposedly have a great ROI and few investors  is because the lack of "publicity leaders" who invest there seems to imply that there's something wrong with the market.  

The difference is that the former must pay for the marketing budget you speak of; the latter has that fat cut out.

Are you going to sell and reinvest (i.e. trade up), borrow against it, let it sit on your books so you can feel satisfied that you have a fat balance sheet?

The giant ones usually don't bother the house, it's the smaller red bellied woodpeckers that are likely eating your house. 

Family member then refinances the home, and gets a nice fat check3. 

. $22K sounds like the perfect amount for a rehab on a small SFH, or a fat down payment.

I'm wondering if I fat fingered the 9 and the 0. 

.  :(  Again, equity stripping requires a HELOC, which would incur a monthly repayment of the loan, thereby decreasing my cashflow - this is why Trump had to claim bankruptcy many times when his schemes went belly-up. 

So sometimes you have to go old school and actually talk to people, hang flyers and get belly to belly.