I bought the building in June and will be looking to do a cash out refinance as soon as I can  to extract the ~45k I put into it and dump it into another project.I got a MassSave (energy savings program in Mass) audit done, and they quoted around ~10k for insulation.

You need to incentivize them to mentor you or partner with you, either you work pro bono for them or bring something to the table of value.To your comment about "shady" or dishonest, I would encourage to you be as honest and forthcoming as possible, I don't know about you but I got into real estate because I wanted to do something meaningful, profitable for my family's benefit, I wanted to benefit from my level of effort rather than giving it to someone else, and most of all I wanted to make the world a better place by improving whatever it is I am working on; I want to be able to lay my head on the pillow at night knowing I did everything I could today to move forward in a positive direction and did so with integrity in order to prevent any form of regret. 

Hi, I'm looking to access the equity of my 10 mortgage-free SFH rentalsI know that I can set up a HELOC for each home, but that will give me 10 different HELOC accounts to manage, which would be a PITAAre there any al...

Funds would be extracted by active consultatoin fees charged by the Canadian entitie(s), and taken out by dividends.Considered a limited partnership for cleaner flow through pruposes, but was told that it is more difficult to get active consultation fees out of it and there is a withholding charge that could take up to a year to get back out to the Canadian entities.Your feedback is appreciated.

Also, it has proven hard to extract information from local professionals like architects, that is not vague or conflicting. 

Perhaps you have a plan provider with meaningful support.

After doing so, I realized I could extract approximately 30k from a property by selling, to start the ball rolling.

What’s the minimum I need to do to sell the main house and extract the most value out of the land that’s just sitting there right now!.

Sooner or later, the piper gets paid, one way or another, and quite literally, all the worst payments extracted involve their children doing the paying for cheaters.Debt can be used to crush a nation, a business, a person who makes himself or herself a target.

But those are mostly for bigger developers who can meaningfully negotiate with the local municipality.