DTI and residual income, one of those two, is always the primary limiting factor for VA deals.

I'm interested in rental property and building residual income.

Cash out refi or HELOC.Rent the place out to bring in a little residual income.

Buy at a discount, rehab the house, rent it out for a monthly residual income and refinance it so you can pull your money back out to do another one?

You also only get one payday and that is when you flip the property, so there is no residual income.

With that being said, I also have goals to own multiple units in the future to create residual income.

My wife and I are looking to expand our current residual income with buy and hold deals.  

My goal is by the age of 30 to be living rent free in one of my units, with enough residual income that i can do my electrical work as a "fun" job, instead of relying on it to support me.

Perhaps a broker that wants a 2% fee and 1 point monthly residual.

When the music stops, you're hoping that there is a chair to sit in (loan payoff or fully leased project).I'm not in equity at the moment, but if I were I'd focus more on projects with higher current returns and less residual value.