If I get the situation correctly, youre wanting to exit retirement and pull cash out of your home to use to flip a property in FL to generate income to live off of.

Please reach out if you are a lender or can connect me.5 Bed 2 Full Bath & 2 Half BathExisting Mortgage ~$550,000Home Value ~$1.1+ Mil Depending on the STR income generated from this property, you could do up to 75% LTV on a cash out refinance.

I would check on this website on the find an agent feature or search Zillow for teams/agents in your area doing 25 or more deals a year.  

As a side note the "Median" rents for the whole country are on a HUD website and is updated every year to the new rent levels, so you can see how your rents compare to the HUD Median rents. 

Now this is an annual thing (for all new properties).For rough math, you can generate a tax write off about 15-20% of the real estate value: one a million you can expect a $150k to 200k write-offs.

Some of their websites will probably explain everything you need to know.  

After doing more searching we found a bunch of investors they did this too and they have an F on the BBB website.

We have been around the bigger pockets community for over a decade now and have more 5 star reviews on bigger pockets than any company on this website in any industry. 

But maybe your tenant reaching out and mentioning that they're going to be forced to file a police report for fraud could generate some traction...obviously the real objective here is to just get the seller to call you back...

And, if you were able to generate $500/mo cash flow as Scott suggests, his method would not replace your income: if you could do only 3 properties a year that would net $1500/mo cash flow and it would take you 10 years to scale it to $15000/mo.