The basement is all concrete; just an exterior access; it sounds like it was built to flood every so often; the floor drain drains back to the river.

Several factors, such as 26% of the US money supply was creates in the past year (WallStJournal 21Feb2021 https://www.wsj.com/articles/t... ) and supply shortages of everything....

@Jaquetta T Ragland I wasn't planning on it with this method, but I can if necessary. 

Hey @Joshua Morgan something you may consider to get access to the down payment funds is obtaining an ULOC unsecured line of credit.

Wow thanks for all the help everyone...you guys are on top of your sh*t.

@Aaron T.

M&T won't do a HELOC on an investment property, but other lenders will.

That was really helpful for me in understanding market trends, etc. and I was sad to see that Zillow stopped showing those prices about a month ago.Does anybody know what changed (in the MLS or otherwise) to give Zillow (and I assume Redfin, realtor.com, etc) that access early this year, then take it away a month ago? 

I don't have one specific contact at Cross because I have more than one entity that has policies with them, and they seem to assign the account rep based on the name of the owner/entity.It's important to get quotes from multiple agencies as they have access to different carriers and may quote you higher or lower depending on what other risk their currently carrying in that area/zip code.

We decided that keeping it as a rental, while retaining access to equity was the best of both worlds.