I'm NOT supporting actual cars (Elon's dream) driving through tunnels. 

Emotional ties don’t want it sold but beside that there’s much potential 5bd 4.5bth that needs much work (roof, plumbing) It’s definitely a project.Or leave that dream and agree to sell and use the $$$ to enter the game another way.

Life is but a dream! 

I am needing advice on what type of lenders I need to look for/network myself to, and if I’m dreaming too big, if that’s a thing.

Many years before I became a realtor I was a USAF veteran working an IT job and was bedazzled by the market at the time and a "perfect" house and bought at the tippy top ceiling of my affordable price range (chasing that white picket fence dream, etc.), using my VA benefit. 

Follow your dreams!

On one end, you have the people who think every nickel of equity not used is equity wasted and the other end is people who would never dream of entangling their home in their investments in case the investments went south.If you're on the every nickel end, get a HELOC and go as high as you can. 

I analyze THEM, there hopes, dreams, goals, needs, wants, resources, assets, liabilities, budgets, hinderances, stress tolerance, time allotment, risk tolerance and about 74 other factors so I can best develop an investing strategy for today's position, tomorrows, and all the evolutions and the years to come.

If you are younger or willing, don't waste time jumping into your "dream house".

It's exciting to look at a cheap property and dream what it could be fixed up and cash flowing- but that's exactly what you have to do first is figure out what the cost is to fix it up and what it could cash flow if you're holding it, or what it would sell for if you are flipping.