I found ways to borrow the cash and did 5 cash out refis within 7 years to recycle the equity to scale up.

Its taken basically 12 years to get back to maybe half of what I had at the time.Bottom line RE cycles and I suspect most of the folks that are having issues did what they thought was correct or right and the market has gone against them..

Even before only every 5th deal or so would truly allow to recycle all cash and generate 25% equity. 

Although it may be a while as the next down cycle is probably around 2024 if you believe the 18 year business and RE cycle.

Basically basement dwelling incels with their "command center" of recycled computers and monitors fixated on pornhub and what scammer they are supporting.

Quote from @Shayan Sameer: Tapping into the equity is always great when it comes to recycling money quickly as you would a flip.

Even with $50-100k, you can start small (like single-families or 2-unit properties) and recycle your money to keep growing.

Recycle, to the best of your ability, any cash flow upon entry.

That data would be sales price after remodel (the true numbers some agents really don't have the experience to be comping the property), the days on market you will experience (this is great info because you want to recycle the money quickly), and resources to sell the place fast not slowly which you do not want this because this could put your holding costs extremely high and push the property to little profit or no profit. 

I'm currently doing a ton of BRRRR's and recycling my money to buy more investment properties.