Your equity is not a savings account from which you can withdraw for free.

It's also a really slow time there.

Their communication is slow at best and you have to ask to speak with a person and hope they provide the Calendly link to schedule a time.  

The building in central Texas exploded ten years ago and I see no sign of it slowing down.

But the first few months where I didnt have any houses under contract I was stressed I was slowing down to much and going to hurt myself in the future.

The issue I found when visiting these places is that the nicer suburbs are not much cheaper than some of the cheaper areas of California (many single families are in the high $200,000's/low $300,000's so the draw is not as enticing if I can purchase something in my state for a similar price). 

A lot of the bad stuff can be avoided by just doing some homework and moving slow.

I have someone interested in staying 8 weeks at my STR during my slow period for a traveling CNA position.

Most of these REITs are just slow motion flips.

Site runs very slow, information is not current and search functions are set in such a way that you have to constantly clear search terms, or change criteria to have it pull what you want - this is especially frustrating in the comps section where - for no reason - you have to open the settings and select "all" for it to pull in comps.