I am not advocating over-leveraging but a HELOC is one of the most powerful tools available to all real estate investors, in my opinion.

Hard to really talk turkey with owner sitting there... 

or "Concentrate your power in one area".

We had a tenant request we power wash the house because it was dusty, he would mow but had foot tall weeds everywhere, and let all the landscaping go to crap.

Knowledge is power, but also a burden.

Get it subdivided by the powers that be in that area.

My thoughts are pretty much based on events in the past few months (ie Paris, San Bernardino, and many many massacres) as well as the 2016 cover of The Economist, ie they have a baby staring at a globe which represents the growing global pandemic of a virus patented decades ago and spread by GMmosquitoes and effective in reducing brain mass/intelligence of most children of infected mothers.That plus school shootings, massacres, water shortages, power outages, and a possible shutdown of EBT Food Stamps could quickly spark a chaos scenario in America's most populous multifamilies & cities.Look around at how many commercial/retail spaces are vacant.

We do shipping nationwide and moving the the west would help double our production power and take advantage of lower shipping rates to the west.  

My focus has been on networking currently as I have been building a powerful group of cash investors, knowledgable partners, and wise friends. 

I started investing back in the bottom of the recession or, as I like to call it, the Great Turkey Shoot of 2010.