It’s off of a very busy road with lots of frontage and its own personal billboard on top of the building.I’m having a hard time figuring out what to do with the property, whereas it is more on the outskirts of town.

Also did business with the Doughers of Orange county now you want to talk about the big boys Holy man. !!

Your not correct under many different circumstances.First property tax is 1.1% (fairly safe) with 2% annual increase (prop 13).Next expenses include a lot more than property tax and interest. 

I would reinvest future cash flow from increasing rents to the principal to pay it down faster.

It's a different business model than the typical broker-investor relationship.

The FFE and other assets of the business cannot be 1031d anyway. 

All businesses can hit speed bumps during any growth period. 

.✅ Creates a Scalable Business – You can’t grow if you’re the bottleneck.

Assuming you go the HELOC route, another option to reduce your costs assuming you have decent credit is to look at credit card balance transfer promotions.Back in 2003-2004 I had HELOCs on my investment properties and interest rates were increasing.

The problem is that your debt payments are going to basically wipe out that $400K profit unless there is room to increase revenue or reduce expenses.