I don't think you should be in a huge hurry to close on a house just to go to Europe for xx weeks...might as well wait and not have an extra mortgage payment. 

They have helped thousands of people in this community. 

Wouldn't using your own HELOC/savings result in a few thousand dollars saved, as opposed to the higher interest rate with a HML, and the points and fees?

Now I’m just waiting for him to get back to me, so that when I call the township I have the parks info. 

In my area, sellers know that the deal will get done so they don't have to accept less.In terms of pulling your money out, you have to wait (6 months I think) before you can do a cash out refi. 

I'll wait until I have a few more rentals to think about a LLC.

When I price out my flips, I have it within a few thousand dollars (without any surprises) because I know what my supplies will cost.

It's definitely my unclear wording that's at fault here.No millions here, just thousands in K:$475K = Loan servicer approved a short sale for this amount.$890K = Value if the property were in excellent condition.$700K = Multiple parties are arriving at this number as their bid

Marvin There are so many things to consider, the way I will go about it will be by acquiring a debt weapon, home equity line of credit maybe for 20,000 and use that to pay down your principal there are some good youtube videos that will explain how to pay down your mortgage faster and save thousands of dollars in interest, but you need to have at least $500 of cash flow each month for that to work or use that to pay of a car payment faster anything that will increase your debt to income ratio so you can start saving more money each month cut down your monthly bills pay off all credit cards anyway you can i will try to get out of any car payments sell the cars buy a use one before selling the house, rent a room is a big house. obviously like i said lots of things to think about do you have kids so maybe a roommate wont work and your finances with out looking at them is hard to plan but I will try to make that house the investment get created if you have good credit that’s exactly how i started i hustle pay down my principal using the HELOC technique and when my equity become more because of lowering the principal I call my lender and increase my HELOC amount to the point that i was able to buy a house cash using the HELOC my HELOC became my checking account and i was paycheck parking all my income in the heloc is hard to explain what i did in a text but i hope this help you in getting created and into looking at more information before you sell or selling is the best way to go about it.

personally I would wait. why take the chance?