Quote from @Shayan Sameer: Hello,real estate investors,I have a question for those with experience pulling home equity to fund new investments.

In this case, you can use Rental Income from the units that you will not be living in and that income can count to help you qualify.FHA rates are going to be lower than conventional for you almost always, but FHA does have a 1.75% funding fee. 

For $10K and a lower rate I'd be willing to consider delaying...but only if I knew that lender two was solid on closing in a relatively short timeframe.

Hard Money finance, with about $5k of my own funds going into some over-budget costs.

VA loans are the only loans that allow this, and there is no rate penalty for it no longer being your primary home.With that in mind, you could do a cash out refinance today at a higher rate than current market rates which will create profit on the loan, we can take that profit to pay for your closing costs.

There’s a reason that big hedge funds still buy and hold houses.

Quote from @Jimmy Rojas: I live in Arizona and homes here are sky high, youd be lucky to get %6 interest rate, I would be a 1st time home buyer, apart from being 1099 employed would Trumps real estate plans benefit the little guys like me? 

I do 30% traditional (roughly split 50/50 stocks and bonds), 30% owned real estate and 30% non traditional (loans, syndications, PPM funds etc).

Luckily, interest rates dropped by the time of relisting and we found another buyer within 3 days of relisting.

Just a heads up this will not be tax free, it will be a pro-rated exclusion.