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borrowing money to buy shares for cashflow?
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buying individual/small basket of high dividend shares is exposing you to 50%+ and very fast potential downswings in capital/margin calls. there is no free lunch in returns in this respect: nothing that pays enough to help you pay your mortgage at a high rate won’t expose you to a lot of potential volatility. main issue here looks like you have very poorly performing rental investments you should consider selling or switching up rental usage/how you rent them (moving to shorter term, higher yield lets, ditching any agents/handymen that are taking up capital/try and refinance to lower mortgage rates etc etc). trying to use leveraged stock returns to pay for poorly performing housing investments is like spraying gasoline all over a fire. fixing the actual issue in hand first is virtually always the best course of action in these scenarios.
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