Luckily they were nice about it and cut the main 3/0 feeder lines from the pole to the circuit breaker box inside on each end and pulled the wire out without doing any damage.A couple years ago I had a worker on the place steal a partial spool of 3/0 wire with about 120 feet on it and a full 325 foot roll of #4 ground wire from my storage building on the farm. 

William, my 2 cents is this.dont put the cart before the horse, but do your best to be reasonable about what you expect the near future to hold. from the limited info i know have gathered from you.you are starting out and need some more cash to fuel some deals. you are conservative in your expectations and realistice. you paid cash for your 1st house so you know how to save.i dont know your age, but that has to play a factor.rates are very low and taking advantage of the cheap money would be huge. what i think i would do, is cash out leaving something like 30% equity and make sure you are very comfortable with what the payment on your primary will be.

, and how much you think they're over-promising with the below solicitation for my brokered business (CFPB may be asleep at the wheel, but California's state regulators certainly aren't, so I'm not touching this with a 10 foot pole). 

I went all electric with programable t-stats...no pilot lights, no tanks, no fuel lines.

Depending on the region you may have un-insulated walls, cheap fuel bills then.

Based on the numbers I saw, its an excessively negative performing propertyafter all the taxes, insurance, fuel, and annual repair costs, you have roughly 9100 left, before debt servicing.

I think ideas like that are what fuels innovation in a way that changes how we view our infrastructure.

Or not touch it with a barge pole?

I like the town, growing Air Force (new fuel tanker coming in), and growing little economy, and nice people.

The lawyer said fine, and some heavy equipment came out, power pole was moved over and some holes dug.