I don't have many limitations about where I go, but California is not an option as that's where I was raised and have no desire to go back.  

5.She is trying to get $50,000 total to try to fix up the reno project plus pay for the expensive repairs on the other properties.6.She would also like to refinance the other properties which may be under commercial loans but deeds are in trust.One is over 12% and others I believe are over 8%.7.Her personal property has a mortgage for $130,000 and is showing about that value on auditors website + corelogic/Zillow.However, they completed gutted and rehabbed their house many moons ago and turned it from a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom church house into 5/6 bedroom 4.5 bath house.I believe theres plenty of equity to be found here but she’s afraid if she gets an appraisal for HELOC either she will waste money and it will come out to what the internet says or the county will reappraise the house and raise her taxes significantly which she can’t afford right now.8.She has a promissory note from a lawyer my stepdad lent $50,000 to some time ago.The note was due for $83,000 balloon in 2011 but he has only paid $5,000 on it.I don’t know the full details of this but she is supposed to send me a copy.Thanks for any help...this is pretty complicated, especially since I don't have the paperword to really lay down the exact details. 

Un-screwing the audited financial statement proposal for Title III style raises would be a giant deal too.  

I used to play high stakes poker and it was amazing how many players threw in a winning hand because I raised and acted as if I were going to keep raising until the cows came home and all of a sudden they were thinking they were going to lose.

@Albert Bui Yes, that one we talked about FHA loan, but now I'm not interested in the FHA loan since it raises my monthly payments too high.  

Are short term goal is to grow it large enought that I can quit my job and manage them part-time while I raise our family full time.

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this type of topic, but I wanted to give a public shout-out to iFunding for our awesome experience over the last 10 days for our 1002 South Center equity raise.  

I grew up here, and moved back about ten years ago with my wife to build a green/natural house and raise a family.

They will live in a 5 mile area.. be born raised and move 50 times in their life.. never ever been on a plane and maybe went to New Oreleans once or twice or Chicago...

We want to raise the rent by about 15% for each.