Cash Flow Potential: Rental income from real estate held in an SDIRA flows directly back into the account, allowing you to reinvest and compound your wealth tax-advantaged.

I've been buying SFH's out of state all cash as long term hold rentals.  

I would like for the properties to cash flow but have no intentions of living off of the cash flow.

I bought this home in 2013 and also did a cash out refi during COVID so buy interest rate is 3.875%.

Personally If you like your current residence and hope to stay there long term I would forgo major improvements on my primary and use all investment savings to make you more money and cash flow. 

Such a situation is recoverable if there is enough time for a market recovery and the cash flow is at least break-even (or there is enough reserve cash to cover negative cash flow until it can turn positive). 

Since you want to aggressively invest in the near future, you will need cash and the 30 year option is the right one for you.

Hey everybody We own 8 rentals in Philly, we are looking to pull some cash out or get a HELOC in order to continue scaling.

If you want better cash flow, 35805, 35810, 35816, and 35811 are likely the choices. 

So basically in my mind this would not be a great financial move as we be accruing about 200k more in debt if we were to sell one house and take the cash from there and use it as a down payment.