(Horsebnb.com)Looking for additional income sources AND the fun people I think this would attract. 

Let's connect

It is important to continue to do research, connect with experts on BP, and what I have found the most helpful is to go to local real estate meetups.

While this is true, I think most people forget there are two components to refinance.

If you demolished inside and they see it you cannot get a standard HELOC you will need to go hard money as most lenders are going to tell you that any worker who stepped on the site can lien the property and HELOC's do not use a new full title report, they rely on the title report of the last sale (again like I started with if people DIY record after closing it's a problem). 

Most people are not willing to do this but if you're scrappy you can pay wildly different prices for the exact same thing. 

Happy to connect. 

But I'd still hit up your local meetups to connect with others doing the same thing in the neighborhoods your investments are in.

I self manage all of my units using my team of connections on Kauai to keep overhead lower. 

HVAC, electrical, major plumbing, etc.I know for a fact there are a lot of people not following the ARS on that. $1,000 doesn't get you very far these days.