They just pulled back the regulations on small lending establishments. https://www.thebalance.com/dodd-frank-wall-street-reform-act-3305688

This house was under contract with another investor who pulled out.Carpet #729 (Fortune Cookie)Vinyl #AC432 (Sandy Brown)Tops #7734-58 (Jamocha Granite)The house comes with a 10 year warranty and all future repairs must be done through the company or the warranty is void.COST - $150,990 ($95.00 deposit holds the home with approved lender and attorney) ESTIMATED VALUE - $153,000RENT - $1,325CASH FLOW - $364I got financing for a 30 Year Fixed loan for 5.25% at 25% down Now waiting until July before I can do anything else.

Good Morning, I am trying to figure out how to pull some equity out of my duplex.

When pulling my absentee lists I notice that there are alot of 100% equity results, Im wondering if the mortgage information just isn't available on most of these properties and therefore this value is a sort of default in that event.

The nature of kitchen and laundry appliances is such that they are, essentially, plug and play (rotable). 

Pull the trigger on another duplex if you find one right away.   

IF someone handed me $100k I would......put a 25% downpayment on a rental property and rent it out for 3 to 5 years and refinance and pull out my equity out, and put it into a larger rental property as a down payment...

That's 6 months close-to-close so you can start underwriting a bit early and overlap. you can also use delayed financing to pull 100% of funds out, but no more and it removes the seasoning requirement.

While getting samples being collected from asbestos testing, noticed more vinyl baseboards and flooring being pulled up by tenant therefore advised by our lawyer to hire a industrial hygienist to do more thorough testing that will hold better in case of lawsuit that tenants have threatened.

We are not sure we want to pull out the equity.