unless you are doing high liability/risk commercial properties, I’m in the camp of holding of holding the properties personally...I’d be happy to chat if you like.

I get your point about HELOC flexibility, but it seems like you have one foot in the door of the "interest savers" camp.

We have research that shows that 97% of real estate investors that buy books/tapes/attend weekend boot camps never buy a single house.

Most of my properties are at least 100 yards from my home, so I'm not going to camp outside a tenants house to try and catch them out.But I'd consider it not because of the nuisance of ferals, but that cats especially have dreadful lives as feral cats.

You said he had very little to begin with and could have taken his air bed on his camping vacation. 

It the house is turn key, you should sell immediately, imho, and stop the bleeding and the worry and concern, and put the whole episode behind.There are REIA groups that meet in Hbg, York, Camp Hill and Lancaster. 

Overall I am in the camp that there will be a recession driven correction.

His family had a business down the road where they did white water rafting, and I had paid an engineer to design a small camping/RV parking lot for that 2 acre lot. 

There are 2 camps basic camps of naysayers; 1) those who are risk adverse, 2) those who are jealous.  

I used to live and invest south of Camp Pendleton in Oceanside and Vista.