so, you'll be paying off the interest on the HELOC with your own cash, and then hopefully the property will support the other loan. 

Hope this helps!

There are plenty of offerings out there that will target 18%+ but you could have the same chance of losing everything as getting 18%.You looking for cash flow play or an equity / upside play?

Yes tenants lose keys (and we can't duplicate them) a bit of a PITA to order more, but well worth it.

I feel there’s generally more of a market for selling houses than condos so in the long term you will get a higher rate of appreciation and lose less in cash flow from exorbitant fees.

Hope you folks out there are working your way thru that tragedy in both places.  

I hope this helps!

Given the property you would move out of will cash flow, doing a refinance would allow you to obtain cash in hand while generating cash on the rental.Ko, I appreciate your response thank you.I guess any delay would be in the hope that a year or two from now maybe we'd see more like 5% mortgage rates, could be too optimistic but at 7% currently there isn't much cashflow to be had.  

Hope you find what you’re looking for.  

In that I would not own the home in my name (the trust would) under those assumptions.Is this even a reasonable strategy to jump start a real estate investment portfolio, any alternative ideas are welcome.I hope I have stated this with enough clarity, Please let me know if additional information is required to answer the question.