To be honored.Anyone who doesn't know me who is willing to die for my right to live is a fringing hero.Maybe BP should honor our men and women with contributions.I'm in for thousandsThey don't need to buy houses.

However consider a bigger picture and remember both Dev and Jerry's approaches are fringing awesome. 

I guess the part where I struggle is understanding how paying fees, getting a higher interest rate, and not being able to extract 100% equity anyways would end up being a great savings plan.I wonder how much I'd save if I put the costs to even get an HELOC and any incurred during the life of it towards the mortgage instead, aggressively paid it down, and kept my emergency savings fund the same rather than growing it.I imagine there are a few fringe scenarios people can concoct where paying money to use a loan to pay a loan saves money, but not many real world ones.

I put dishwashers in all my rentals even though they are mostly on the "fringe".  

Some tenants don't want any paper trail because of where their income comes from or some are "on the fringe" and are skeptical of government/banks in general.  

As I later learned my property was on the fringe of the war zone which later was absorbed into it when the housing bubble burst and my investment further deteriorated.

The towns mentioned are more sought after for different reasons, but they are on the outer fringe, we're it appears to be growing outward. 

Our opinions of  de minimis may differ from that of the IRS - -see https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-governments/de-minimis-fringe-benefits

If I was to suggest an area that is on the fringe where most people aren't looking, yet there's some good potential for either A or B class flips or rentals, it would be Yorktown. 

This C Corp will be used to write off your expenses and get fringe benefit like health care and qualified retirement plans.Last I don't believe a domestic trust will create asset protection anymore as many case law have showed that it did not work.