While it may not be your highest, it gives the impression it is.

Nights and Weekends hauling garbage, cleaning rentals, etc can be a terrific way to make an impression on them, learn about the business, and get some money while doing it.

Opinions will vary on this, but I never put a house on the market until it is totally complete with landscaping, final cleanup and staging completed.You only get one chance to make a good first impression with a buyer, you want the buyer to be noticing all the great features, you dont want them looking and noticing incomplete or unfinished items.We have had many of our houses sell first weekend on the market this past year.

Who do you want to impress?

That's not much of a metric, but it will at least give you the opportunity to reflect on an existential question, something like: "Do I really want to risk my home with a big HELOC to buy a property that I'll have to manage for the next five years, so that I can end up with X dollars (where maybe X, in today's dollars, is not a very impressive number and maybe even negative)?"

Don't let the fancy words impress you just yet- ie reit, pension funds, etc.

Hi Bigger Pockets Community, I am continually impressed with the caliber of talent here on this site.

Thanks for the comments guys, I am really impressed so far with the people and resources on this site.

I'm also impressed with the knowledge of the members who post here and their willingness to share.

Hubby called several well known companies in town acting as a prospective client and was not impressed.