It enabled me to save for the multifamily that i am closing on in the next 2 weeks (putting 100k down).

If you have the capital to buy and conduct rehabs on somewhat distressed properties with deferred maintenance and sub-market rents then there is a lot of upside potential to making improvements and raising rents/extracting equity to move on to the next.

Thank you,she tried the HELOC,her house is paid in full.I know she has credit issues but I thought the house alone would enable her to be able to borrow against it.

Simple arithmetic tells us that the DIY will pay more for a property since they have less out of pocket expenses (we will ignore the implicit opportunity costs of their time for simplicity's sake), thus more cash flows to their bottom line and gives them a larger numerator in their ROI calculation, which enables them to have a large denominator (purchase price) to arrive at the same 11% return.

This is where all of your lessons from the beginner and intermediate stage enable you to be a better manager of your business.

In such a case, the only way to reduce interest paid and "accelerate" the loan is to go in with a shorter term or make higher payments using 0% funds (you pay no interest on it).In this case, if I were guaranteed a 4% interest rate, I'd opt for 15 year amortization so I'd be able to refinance sooner and extract my equity, if that were a key item in my strategy. 

A decent agent in CA will do $10M in sales here which is not that difficult and in doing so, could make ICON enabling the 20% broker split to be given back in stock.

., the core of the issue is you are not responsible for illegal behaviour of others - your tenants in this case - unless you knowingly condone or enable those illegal activities.

This will enable you to compare market rent and property value vs. what the turnkey is stating.Get copies of their management and leasing agreement and read them.

It enables them to stay in the game while maintaining their sanity and doing other things.