It’s not ideal but I’m exploring all opportunities.This is my first time legitimately renting a home (I currently rent a room in my house to a close friend with no formal agreement in writing) and I’m thankful to be able to talk through this with someone familiar with something like this.

I started thinking this might be interesting to explore, or maybe use from an investor stand point.Anyone do this and can anyone offer any insight on it from and agent POV or investor POV?

Another angle I'm exploring in two new developments I'm working on is to incorporate small-office warehouse into the projects.

Ive never explored any other banks or credit union as you suggest.

I'd recommend listening to every podcast you can, it's really helped me evolve in my plans and helped me understand different facets to better understand what will help me get started, where I want to be going, and other options I might want to explore as I go along this journey.

Explore.

So if it's worth $350k in it's current state,  you could receive a cash out loan of $245,000 minus your $170,000 so about $70,000 to you.These are all ideas to explore but I feel that the right expectation for you to have is to only find a first lien solution here.Bigger Pockets does have state specific forums. 

I have a 800+ credit score and I'm trying to explore options on how to avoid PMI. 

I have a 800+ credit score and I'm trying to explore options on how to avoid PMI. 

I am in the process of exploring other options for Dallas, including self managing those.