It may be too liberal for some people (the board of supervisors is currently 2-2 party affiliation due to a democratic member stepping down and one of the leading contenders (mayor of Chula Vista) for replacement is a republican.  

NJ is very blue, liberal, tenant friendly state.

I am not a fan of high taxes or regulations but when a business leaves one of my properties I am swamped with calls with out advertising and this is in the highly liberal Bay Area.

Thats got to be such a liberating feeling. 

I cant describe how hard these drives were, yet also they were very liberating and refreshing.

The more liberal the location, the higher the risk.  

It's a credit score. the best way to build credit is to have credit, use it liberally and use it properly.

The truth is that investing in real estate through an SDIRA can often cause you to pay much more tax than if you took the money out, paid the tax, and liberated your money to invest in real estate.Most of the people I know that started using SDIRAs to invest in real estate, eventually pull it all out to invest outside the SDIRA.

I'm originally from San Francisco, one of the more liberal and anti-landlord cities in the state.

@Michelle SharkoAnswering questions in step by step fashion:- Is it a good thing to do or not is a personal finance decision and it depends on the person asking it, their risk tolerance which in part has to do with how this HELOC or line of credit works and how your personality fares relative to taking on new debt (a person more adverse to debt might have sufficient savings and temperament to pay down/back the debt versus a financially liberal person might get in over their skii's as).