Lots of dots to connect, though. Why a re-fi at 270K? That’s an awful lot of cash to pull out of a house, unless the owner developed a higher-interest cash flow problem. Home renovation is pretty affordable, even, daresay, in the Bay Area. Daly City is actually a nice area.
Does the county publish property tax assessments on the Web?
Not necessarily, it depends on what they had it financed at BEFORE the re-fi, they might have drawn out any amount, with out checking the previous amount financed, its all speculation.