I would suggest making a trip out here to KC and visiting some of the suburbs.

I second the recommendations on here to just ignore it and don't respond - you don't want to make any kind of commitments to him to have it looked at and then be held on the hook for that.If he's serious he'll get his lawyer involved, but until that happens I'd just block the phone number.

@Greg Grant For your scenario, I would think the cheapest money would be some kind of debt instrument on your primary home.

Although that kind of worries me, it does allow me to keep my reserves and use them for more investments.

I am reaching out to see if there is anyone that is currently self managing if they would be willing to meet for lunch on a weekend or coffee in the evening etc. to kind of run me through the process of how to get a property ready to rent. 

Hi All I am kind of getting to the point of giving up.

I think I have some kind of equity in my home but I never wanted to use it for anything.

And still have access to the HELOC.Sorry just kind of thinking out loud and making up numbers.

@Tiffany Ralston - I use the marketplace and for silver level coverage (80% coinsurance and a doctor visit is like $25 with prescription coverage) it is $500 / mo just for meI don't have any pre-existing conditions and do not take regular medicationIf anyone has a better / cheaper solution I would be open to hearing it 

Our friends just suggested we looked into series-LLC- I'm going to research that and see if that's a better approach going forward.You can do a reverse entity search and find the owner of any LLC in Iowa- so you can "kind of" stay anonymous, but not all the way.