I could rant more about the mysterious passive voice, the needless cross-references, and the pompous hereofs and hereins.  

Have any of you had success in cross-collateralizing your properties to secure a higher HELOC or Home Equity Loan ?

Be aware of where you are buying South of Market and South of Exchange is an even bigger border to cross.

The cross breeze doesn't do well with cooling the house down.What are the downsides?

You will stack glowing green stacks of US cheddar in front of them until it overwhelms their unprepared minds and they fall sobbing upon it, begging you to just take their house and leave them the Bliss of Franklin.You will then rent out that property for at least a year while you live somewhere else.Then you will get rid of your tenant in that property and move in your family, and then spend at least the next two years pimping it up to sell as your primary residence for a gain of less than or equal to $500,000.AND THEN YOU WILL GET PAID.I am not an expert on any part of this except perhaps a few aspects of handling the actual work of the live-in flip.

They will have crossed the line and entered into bad tenant territory and will need to be redressed.

When you draw a line in the sand and dare someone to cross it you shouldn't be surprised when they do.

PLUS, this way if I don't like Florida or things there change, I can move back to Seattle for a few thousand dollars in moving costs and a cross country road trip!

So much so that the U.S Green Building Council has implemented a new standard of green certified housing knows as LEED or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. 

My money is on the white or dry green stuff