With real estate investing, you have the tax benefit and depreciation along with what is hopefully an apreciating  asset.

The down fall is a Heloc can "Never" be used as an asset or for PITI reserves required when buying a new Primary or investment property.A heloc can also cause major issues with credit and one slight hiccup or missed payment the bank or lender who is holding the Heloc can close or reduce your line of credit.

It's a primarily a utility asset, and secondarily a store of value against currency. 

Game changer for active investor looking to get more passive investments, busy professional looking to diversify in real estate, individual investor looking to get into commercial or larger assets. 

These same banking regulators required banks (which include Trust Companies) to hold reserves of safe assets.

I'd talk to brokers in your specific asset class and market.Do you already own similar assets?

@Nick Henry this also comes down to how much time you have available and how much effort you are able to put into purchasing a home or building and doing renovations and then finding quality residents to live and take care of your asset.

More than doubling in one day did change that a bit, but I am glad I have it and hope it is never needed.I advocate those who have significant assets have the protection necessary to protect those assets.  

In the end we had to pay to turn the space back in to a white box/shell and closed with basically zero physical assets.

It stated all over our PPM “this is an investment in a non liquid asset”.