This gives you the dry powder you need if a good deal comes along or unexpected expenses and you keep the existing low mortgage rates and do not increase your payment until you use the HELOC.Consider how you could increase the cash flow on the existing properties and if you have the means to pay off one of the houses to increase the monthly cash flow that way.

My old sources recently ran dry and I had to venture out.

Oh God, too precious.We moved her into a different vacant apartment, and she convinced the owner to buy her a new carpet, because the old one was supposedly ruined by dry plaster dust.  

Other than that for us, closing is like watching paint dry. 

Here's the list of things I disabled for the Nest in my properties for those doing research:- Home/Away Assist: Off- Time-to-temp: Ready (Didn't touch)- Early-On: Off- Cool to Dry: Off- Sunblock: On - Ready (Didn't touch)- Leaf: Ready (Don't remember touching, but could have been enabled during setup)- Airwave: On - Ready- Lock: Currently off for one property (debating if I want to lock the thermostat at 68 for cooling and 78 for heating - and taking special requests from quests) 

With the leak, I'm sure they'd appreciate a safe, dry place to store them. 

one of the partners that we went in on the deal with owned two other car washes nearby that are self-service wash style you mentioned and although our full service wash had a much higher average ticket value and overall more revenue, his other two washes averaged less than 1% in labor cost where our full service was would be between 20%-30% on any given day. we ran a detail crew of around 5 people and then had around 10 or so people on hand to handle the car wash traffic. we tried to get away with not hand drying the vehicles after they exited the wash but the previous owner had made that a staple of the business so when we stopped doing it people got frustrated and we decided to keep that a part of the process. in doing so that means you have to pay labor tax!

I know that cities/counties do not give approvals for smaller things, like dry wall installed before electricals are  inspected.

Steve Mashura,NAR partners with businesses to peddle whatever wares to newly licensed agents as a benefit that sucks them dry of any start up money.NAR has some lobbying efforts that help with legislation from time to time but other than that pretty worthless.I was REALTOR first year in business over 20 years ago and saw no value.

Again I don't think this is a 2024 or even early 2025 type problem, I am more so looking to maintain my current returns, while having the ability to scale further in the 3-5y horizon while tapping into equity built over the previous few years of renovations and property stabilization.Yes a normalized market is a great opportunity to grow the portfolio, which I certainly plan on doing, I just want to ensure I can tap into the dry gunpowder that has taken a lot of effort to create the past two years.