. :-)  In my 25 year of fire service an ember floating away from a fire pit has never been the cause of house fire that I have been on.  

You could try to extract equity in the form of a HELOC but that presents it's unique risks if you have a floating rate. 

The risk to investors with floating interest rates is very high if inflation continues upward.

Given your involvement in different areas, consider checking out various property types – residential, commercial, whatever floats your boat.

I had heard this was being floated but didn't know it was being pushed so aggressively.

You're going to likely need a substantial down and be able to float the payments. 

if you have 3 rentals I would imagine you have some equity,  my guy will do up to 80% of purchase, at 4.5% 6 month interest only. i can pull the 20% down from equity or cash, and float fix up on a line of credit, self fund, or the bank will run it like a construction loan, I just cant see paying 3-5% up front and 12% interest the cost of the loan, and holding costs will kill your profit. 

Real estate can be unpredictable at times and there is nothing like a war chest to allow you to float during tough markets or make acquisitions when financing is tight.

Thing is any "decent" GC must have the $-reserves to fully float at least 50% of his entire production jobs at any given time.

Word for word this is how I see it but never floated it out so eloquently.