I have a friend from my church who has suffered both financially and in her marriage relationship because they had to move from their apartment to a new apartment IN THE SAME COMPLEX. 

Build relationships with other local investors and real estate professionals with like minded goals.

If it appraises for $290,000 do you think it is wiser to refinance AND get a HELOC or leave the mortgage as-is and just do the HELOC?

I believe you can pay I think $25 each meeting to attend or they have yearly memberships with I think it's a great investment for all the education and relationships you can build by attending. 

Hey Megan - Our goal is to stand behind our promise that the conference will allow you to build valuable relationships, boost your potential, and close more deals.

I much prefer to build relationships with sponsors over time and invest based on that.

@Fred TracyI do believe that you have to take a distribution from the cash positive series to then contribute back to the negative series.However you can not directly transfer from one series to the other as they have no direct relationship.

Does he have the track record and relationships to evidence his success? 

One benefit, of course, is simply building relationships with other like-minded entrepreneurial professionals.

Just know that it takes a while to build those relationships and get the referrals.