I retain the option of paying down the mortgage or eliminating it altogether.

I even know a fellow investor who quit paying his real estate taxes and making repairs altogether.  

Over the years, my colleagues and I have created a new patented system for building on the coast which produces homes that not only outlast storms, but resist them altogether.

The other option altogether is new construction which is the route we have gone.

The property will always stay CF positive,...just not as high during the LOC payback period.The reason why I don't pull it out of a property equity, is if I sold that property, I have to pay off the LOC,...and I lose it altogether.  

@Chris Leeper watch some of Pace Morby’s stuff, it can help you eliminate the need for those roles altogether.

Save up your money and do things properly or just avoid said hell altogether.  

But I wouldn't issue a judgement as to if the best idea is to write it off altogether and say "just rent for a few years" without talking with him more first. 

You may save a few month altogether doing it through your heloc but it's much harder to manage.

Eliminate Google altogether and write SEO to please the user, not google.As google tries to please the user by formulating protocol to do this automatically, I overstep google and become higher in the chain of Google command and only focus on this.