First Rental Property

[Alex Lunsford]

Hey everyone, pretty new here, but extremely excited to get started so bear with me. I'm currently working towards using the VA home loan to buy my first multi-family investment property. One of the catches is I have to be a primary resident of one of the units for an extended period of time which isn't a problem for house hacking. However I was looking to see what insight I can get from those of you that have experience with this kind of approach or something similar? Can you use the equity in the property towards another property purchase, rehab costs, etc., or are there limits to what you can actually do with the property?