When you cash out refi, you can use the money to improve the property and/or buy your next investment.

Some lower income tenants tend to pay via cash or money orders and you could have them deposit it direct into your account and text you the receipt for you to input.

Taking out $500K of tax free money (sounds like Section 121 (married)) through the sale of the property is great if you're trying to scale your portfolio.

If you just listen to the 1000+ podcasts of the 'real estate', 'money' and 'rookie' you would have a good base of knowledge. 

@Mohan Deep, in most situations you will never recover that money.

@Jason Taken hard money financed

And not using a hard money lenders or gap funders.

I am new to this so I am running out of ideas but in reality to start living together we need a 4 bd house for our 3 kids and a bunch of pets so we know it would be a house around $800K until we can make more money from our jobs and side hustles.

Yes I understand it's to make money, but could you elaborate more please?

I by no means want to spend money especially that amount but in protection of my life, and my family 's life and property due to their lack of communication had no other choice.