Does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this, or know any good sources that issue HELOCs on investment properties?  

Other than the usual paperwork frustrations the overall approached worked well.

An under-utilized approach to REI...two off the top of my head are ZER and XER, though have also been watching REI.UN, which offers ~6% return just from dividends alone.

I totally agree, based on your objectives and fact you will not have a local PM, that trying a cash for keys approach might be the most productive. 

I’ve built a mobile friendly web app designed to organize information for landlords and I was planning on adding applications to it next so this is good timing.

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I think that's a more realistic way to approach this.

Has anyone else experienced this, and can someone tell me what type of institution I should be approaching?  

I believe the 1.3M was assigned something like 800K in land value and 500K in re-design and physical improvement cost (we had an approved but not yet built 45 unit apartment addition to the existing 135 units which required design revisions).

What's a smart approach to using debt in a positive way and not negative.