Then some tourist kid has the gall to be site-seeing while you get your 20 minute break from your 14 hr days.

Ideally there would be a way to work some cash flow into this deal to offset loans or ultimately provide an additional source of income for them in their retirement.Having poked around on BP for a while and listened to copious podcasts, I have come up with a rough strategy:Get home equity loan on existing property for around $300-$400KUse loan money for 20% down payment on two properties: one SFR for them somewhere cheaper in the SGV like Rosemead or El Monte, and one multifamily for us to house-hack within 30 minutes or so of downtown (El Sereno, Highland Park, USC area, Inglewood?)

In my area it almost always requires including all of the utilities so if that's the case for you don't forget to factor in those add'l expenses. 

All properties show up on your personal return.If you've bought five properties, fixed them up, and rented then, you have a complex tax situation. 

I know i live about 40 minutes from Stockton so I am guessing these contractors have plenty of work close by and don't want or need to travel this far for work.   

I would hate to do all the leg work for my competition and have someone step in five minutes after it's rezoned and cut me out of the deal.

Within a few minutes to a few hours, the funds from C's bank are used to pay you and you sell the property to your buyer C.

It's a C Class property in a smaller community about 30 minutes north of where I live.

Now you're not scrambling at the last minute to find someone .

If I was in your shoes, I would first look into this option of tapping into the extra VA benefit that you have yet to utilize before doing another refi.