Failure to do so enables the tenant to plead ignorance of the law as a defense."

You gotta ask yourself, am I buying this to make some money and have a "jewel" property that I can feel good about having in my portfolio, or am I buying this because I believe I can extract the maximum value and dollar amount out of this 1.3 or 2.6 million?

This implies that you will not be able to extract the full $150K equity through a typical refinance. 

It gives you the marketing power of a 40 character message and clickable link on EVERY Bluetooth enabled Android device within 300 feet.Take it with you and passively generate leads.

Also is there a method of extracting the equity from both properties in a single transaction?

It takes some work and some vision to see things that others miss because they aren't looking for it in this way, but you could pay retail and actually still make a profit by spotting and extracting this sort of hidden value.

. - you can manually extract this information from Zillow if you know how to slice it.  

I didn't realize you posted right away since I didn't have notifications enabled.

Also keep in mind it was the CA appreciation that Swanny experienced that enabled that move in the first place.

I must be able to purchase the property at a discounted price to enable me to force appreciation to allow me to recoup my total cash invested.4.