When folks complain of "big-brother", they really have no clue how much data these private companies harvest....

Vendors are allowed to sell in the marketplace but are not allowed to contact members unsolicited nor harvest email addresses from this site.

Local National REIA Chapter MAREI - meets the 2nd Tuesday:July 9th MAREI is hosting their 5th Annual Real Estate Investor Networking Trade Show to Benefit Harvesters - we typically have about 150 to 200 attend and about 40 Vendors. 

They are also farmers and are currently harvesting and will touch base with me in a week, which gives me time to prepare.

You typically retain the right to return and take the next harvest. 

They may view this as some how you are harvesting clients from the company and renting/selling to them ?

They are often older bungalow style, 2-bed houses with 1960's-70's avocado green fridges and harvest gold ovens in the kitchen that still work. 

I would re-evaluate every 2 years what is ready to harvest and split my investments until I had the cashflow I wanted.

So, I chose to build a time-leveraged real estate business focused on cashflow and quick equity harvests that fund a two-tiered recession-proof investment strategy. 

Depending on how much closing costs would be to harvest the equity and whether you would have other funding sources to cover capex/vacancy if you use your savings, I'd lean towards using your own funds for now.