Quote from @Landon Lehmann: If you cash out equity in a property, you are "borrowing" that money from the lender.

What I do offer is a perspective of syndication versus owning the properties yourself.  

Find a neighborhood you like, find a house you like, buy it, and hold it.Focus on learning to analyze individual properties.

You have areas where property taxes are going up too fast based on the over valuation of properties  ( tax on unrealized gain ) .

If you had a paid off rental house, and others with mortgages, and you wanted to use the equity in the paid off rental for a cash offer on another property, how would one do that if the DTI ratio doesn't work due to having too much credit utilization with the addition of the new loan.

My company manages properties nationwide; some for local investors, and some for investors with properties hundreds of miles away!

We are on the fence as to rent it or sell it.

If I'm required (by the bank) to leave 30% in the property...who is finding properties where they can make these numbers work?

It ensures that when potential clients think of buying, selling, or renting property, your brand comes to mind first.

Looking into moving personal properties to LLC and then trying to get Business Line Of Credit which will help make it easier to scale and diversify.