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.

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

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.

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

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.

Has anyone here used Monarch money?

It'll be more work on the front and back end but can be a great way to make money.

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

You can supplement the funds that you're taking out of your home through additional funds from hard money. 

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.