You may write a check for your next house and put it in the trust, each time asking your banker to extend your credit line to cover your improved equity.

Books, tapes and seminars won't cover the actual day to day lifestyle, so I thought I'd ask for your experience as part of the whole picture. 

I'd like to pay off my equity note right away, but it's not an urgent need, as long as buyer's payments cover my monthly nut ($250 equity loan, $300 taxes, $75 HOA).

Go find something that will give you at least a 12% cash on cash return which with 25% down leverage should be fairly easy, then you have an extra 6K a year to add in which will more than cover the fees you are worried about.  

But I am in need of opinions on the matter.A) Carpet is definitely out for a replacement option. she needs to re-floor only about 250 SF, so we were thinking laminate would be the better option.a) My original plan was to just ask her to save the equivalent of carpet replacement (since that is what was damaged) and then i would cover the difference in cost to upgrade to a more durable flooring.

I'm looking at the property this weekend with my GC who is also my 50/50 equity partner.I don't think this would work as a subject to deal because the rent would most likely not cover their mortgage.

An LLC or LP will give you better liability protection, but also will require an $800/year fee to CA versus a GP will not, but doesn't cover your liability as much. 

I covered the asbestos with house wrap and put warning stickers all over the wrap, then covered it with vinyl siding. city approval, no problem.

Here it is.Let me know if you want to see any other county that covered by Trend (berks, bucks, burlington, camden, chester, cumberland, delaware, gloucester, kent, mercer, montgomery, new castle, salem, schuykill)

Just to cover yourself,  find other non-discriminatory means to decline them like credit score, criminal background and eviction history.