Refinancing: Once the properties are renovated and rented, refinancing can help you extract equity to fund additional investments.

When you looked at the numbers on the top 3, they all had good cash flow and great appreciation (the numbers were calculated as though no equity had been extracted). 

I question how much value above costs can be achieved.An ideal BRRRR has zero costs and has positive cash flow after the refi to extract the value add.  

Shoeboxed lets you snap pictures of paper receipts, extracting data and syncing with accounting tools.

My questions are many... but the main ones are a) how would an unemployed person like me extract my ex-'s share of equity to get them out of the property?

I do not believe I have mineral rights on any of the properties I own, but I share in mineral rights on property that I do not own and have active extraction and receive 2 monthly checks (different operators).  

If you can get considerably better than 3% on a new deal, it may make sense to extract that 200k and move it into a new deal. 

Lots of valuable nuggets to extract for a newcomer such as myself.  

It is perhaps my favorite meetup that is not associated with a larger group (such as SDRE, NSDRE, SDCRE).For the most part the lenders only lend on non owner occupied ADU, at low percentage of ADU addition costs because they know that usually the value extract will be significantly less than the ADU addition costs.  

It needs to be stopped now before some form of this arises in the so-called metaverse, where tech titans want to shift the entire economy over to so they can extract profits and not be responsible for any of the negative side effects.