But it's a gamble, could work, could not, most likely won't be how you expected lol.Renting rooms might make more money, but again different challenges.

It's quite a gamble.

It also makes a HUGE assumption that you can access this gained equity through refi at the same rate as when you started the loan (highly unlikely and as I stated, math is math and statistics are statistics so why gamble on an unknown factor!).

Not worth it to me to gamble in the winter only for it to come out poor because the weather didn't cooperate.

Come do what I do for a living in Oakland, and here's the BEST CASE spam you will get (actual terms/conditions will of course be WAY WORSE than what's presented in a spam text like this):65% LTV means 35% equity.

They annoy the crap out of me with all of their spam mail....

You are gambling in an arena with a hefty anti.

Nowadays craigslist is so full of spam from large apartment complexes and scams that tenants interested in SFRs struggle to find something legitimate.  

I'm not trying to spam but I placed a similar post in a more generic forum and then I noticed this forum which I think is more specific to the location I need assistance. 

Maybe see if they have a two- or three-month trial period and take the gamble.