Seeing as you mentioned you have very little liquidity in after-tax and savings accounts, I'd likely recommend focusing on building up a buffer of accessible and liquid dollars in an after-tax brokerage account prior to maxing out a Mega Backdoor Roth.

We sit on about $300.000 in liquidity.

Typically we get the deals for cheap from motivated seller, bank liquidations, or through our network.

If you don’t urgently need the money, letting appreciation and rent growth work in your favor for another year or two might put you in a much stronger spot.If your goal is to stay liquid while keeping expenses low, a HELOC is probably your best bet for now.

Staying liquid and ready to move on a deal when the right one comes along is always a good approach.If you're looking at buying, I'd focus more on long-term fundamentals over short-term speculation. 

.✔ Ensure liquidity throughout the build process to handle unforeseen expenses.By structuring the financing this way, we were able to minimize financial risk while maximizing investor returns.

We have cash in available however I'm seeing that when applying for a HML you need proof of liquidity.

I expect to have better liquidity and roughly $100k to invest sometime in the next 9-18 months.

Quote from @Lambros Politis: Quote from @Robert Ellis: Quote from @Lambros Politis: I'm looking to liquidate my modest real estate portfolio in the PNW via a 1031 exchange and move into a high-yield tertiary market.

those would be tough to land shiloh  maybe friends or family.my advice FWIW is total liquidation IE sell it all.. get out of debt and start over . 1.4 mil in equity probably will realistically boil down to less than half of that in cash..