I scaled up my portfolio from 2 to 6 this year and a little concerned to grow more right now as the housing market is hot right now and I do not want to get into trouble if there is a big correction.

Also what grade neighborhoods are you doing?

We'll be getting in an phase 1 of the buildout and the developers of the community have a proven track record having designed another community but on a larger scale elsewhere in the metroplex.

I hired "early" but it's allowed me to scale because when hiring any talent there's always a ramp up period.

I kinda want to keep it so i can use the equity to scale up. 

I am of the scale that I can probably deal with these issues by throwing money at the various problems that will arise.

You could still get value out of the relationships.The best time to pay for coaching is after you have a small business going of your own and you want to scale it.

If you start just using $100,000 of your HELOC for a down payment you can then use the rest of it to scale up into a bigger property once you have a little experience.

Overall I have three options:1) Sell current Owner Occupied triplex and reinvest proceeds in to a 12 plex or higher and rent in a nicer neighborhood with family upon relocating to Bay area , pay rent using cash flow from 12-plex2) Take a HELOC on current triplex and invest in a Bay area small mf up to 4-plex and continue house hacking by living in one of the units.This may be a better option over #1, dealing with lesser tenants and other issues that come when scaling up3) Sell triplex and buy a single family in bay area.

I also dislike the equivalent of grade inflation- in the sense of just because it's all average wear and tear (?)