As mentioned before you can do a cash out refinance or HELOC, but you might also explore what would be possible in obtaining new properties without going into debt on current properties.

@AJ Harris you may have $30k in equity but you likely will only be able to get refinance at 75% LTV which would be about $86K, so you would only be left with $6K after paying the original mortgage off. 

The customer service level reflects the difference between indifferent salaried people checking boxes and letting automated software do whatever it wants to do, and folks paid for production (like if you went the refinance route, rather than assumption).

Would you somehow be made to refinance upon moving out?

Do I need to transfer it back to me personally before trying to get a refinance loan?  

However I fail to see how this is true at the scale at which I would be capable of buying...in my price range the properties would not be large enough to merit their own on-site Management, unless maybe I just bought one and bet my entire future on it.

Cash-out refinance is EASY!

Six months into project, when your loan is due, he is still in the middle of rehab, which by now is way over budget, and he has no way to refinance to pay you back.

I think we can do most of the renovation work in 90 days and then will refinance conventionally. 

I am still learning about REI (a little late to this party, I should've been learning about it much sooner) but it seems like OOS would be our best bet for monthly cash flow.