@Devon Shives,Your situation has a lot of potential, but here’s a thought: A cash-out refi could work if you’re confident you can use the $30-35k effectively for your next property, but the higher rate and payment might indeed limit your borrowing power for another mortgage.Consider these alternatives:1.

The queen is your most powerful piece, but it needs to be used wisely to win the game.Here’s how to play the game:1.Protect Your Cash: Instead of using your hard-earned $80K for large investments outright, leverage it strategically.

I use Executive Villas and they just charged me $500 to repair some table legs and replace the batteries on a remote.

And the power of leverage will bring me generational wealth in about 10 years.

More power to you if it works, and as you said there isn't any one way of doing this.

They do not just stop paying because there is a door knob loss, or a smoke detector missing a battery. 

If you plan on buying these properties using a mortgage its also best to begin the pre approval process and work with an investor friendly lender to help guide and educate you what the best product might be for your projects to make sure you dont already max out your borrowing power after the first deal.

You might luck out and find a guy that on the DL hates gov and loves to comply just to take back the "power." 

Even so, you need to buy expensive equipments and use a lot of power to mine very little Bitcoin.  

You can get more insights from other brokers that way you have more open spaces and still hold on to the power.