Rent out a unit and live for the remaining year, likely paying oop for a portion of debt service or operating expenses• Holding costs have been recouped, then save remaining funds, after my oop costs, for remainder of the year or until desired saving fund reached7.

A lender would have to be a fool to lend on collateral that wasn't protected - if the house is lost in a fire or whatever, the loan is unsecured at that point and is basically credit card debt. 

We ended up just doing a shiplap ceiling to eliminate having to drywall and filled the cavity between the two ceiling with rockwool and it has made a pretty substantial difference that wasn't crazy expensive and was a two day project due to eliminating the need to finish drywall.  

On the other hand, there’s a part of me that wants to just keep slow and steady without leveraging more debt and buy properties as I can save a 20% down payments.

I purchased it with a HELOC so higher interest debt until I can cash out refi.

I’m currently working on 58 unit BTR development project and seeking one or two private debt investors to help fund it.

Then another thing I see coming down the pike is the credit card debt.

but I’m starting to reconsider .Eating the Capital Gains will hurt a bit but we can apply the profit made towards some tax debt as well and then apply more $ to our primary condo out here and get relief of the PMI.OR do a 1031 .However, most people say an intermediary is necessary .I need to do research on how much someone charged for a 1031 .

@Joey Samudio, I'd recommend buying the asset with a normal 1031 exchange and then layer on debt for rehab after purchase.

I didn't realize this.I know you aren't on the lending side per say, but follow up question.If I have two buildings in my name with total debt of $900k and I am looking to refinance one of them that has $500k debt, would the 45% DTI be based on the total debt ($900k)?