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Albert Bui
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  • Bellevue WA & Orange County, CA
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Have you ever used VA Financing to live in one unit and rent the others?

Albert Bui
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  • Bellevue WA & Orange County, CA
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I always thought this was a great strategy that could work in many states depending on the price range but have you ever done this yourself and whats you're experience personally?

Advantages using VA financing:

- can use rental income when vacating your currently primary residence to purchase another primary home even with no documented equity requirement in your current residence (conventional requires 30% equity to do so, and FHA requires 25%)

- can use 100% of the rent minus the entire mortgage payment while FHA/Conv makes you discount your rents to 75% of the monthly gross minus entire mortgage payment with VA

- can be combined with mortgage credit certificates(MCC) depending on what your income limit is in your specific state/county and this can provide a dollar for dollar benefit for approx 20% of all the interest you pay per year.

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