This is more of a commercial product i believe but may be worth checking out depending on how many properties you have. 

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

Paying down your mortgage is 100% risk free. 

I am a loan officer, if you need more detailed advice or have specific questions, feel free to ask!

I would like to get together to talk sometime.feel free to send me a PM and we can go from there.

It doesn't apply to commercial business tenants that I've seen.

Then when you inform the newbie of the reality of dong subject to transactions, or I inform them about the pitfalls of originating hard money commercial loans, they accuse us of being bias, killing their dream, "hating" them, etc.  

You can exchange tax free into about a $2.8mm class B apartment complex.

Then, perhaps a few days later you offer them a free month's rent if they just choose to move out.

So, slightly different in the structure but can still be of service to those of us that had a loss.And while I am referencing Texas these are the same links to use anywhere in the country at any time for a declared "Federal Disaster Area".Feel free to share this information with anyone that you know that might have been impacted by these storms and maybe this can help them in some way.To apply a claim as an individual use this link: https://www.disasterassistance.gov/To apply a claim as a business use this link: https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/disaster-assistanceAs of this post the counties declared as a disaster area in Texas are as follows: Austin, Bell, Calhoun, Collin, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Ellis, Falls, Guadalupe, Hardin, Harris, Henderson, Hockley, Jasper, Jones, Kaufman, Lamar, Leon, Liberty, Montague, Montgomery, Navarro, Newton, Polk, San Jacinto, Smith, Terrell, Trinity, Tyler, Van Zandt, Walker and Waller counties.