However, if you can acquire using private money, renovate and then refi, you could be in a better equity situation and leave less money in the deal. 

Building equity in your house is one of the biggest financial advantages of homeownership.

I purchased a two-family property in 2017 and now have around $500K in positive equity.

Use the 20K as a down payment on the next house hack and don't touch your current properties equity.

Ok yeah we are thinking of getting an investment property loan so we can stay in our current home.If we did the FHA route we are considering on living in the new property for 1 year and then moving back into our old one after the year is up.We are curious if we would get a more favorable rate if we borrowed from our home equity to buy the investment property.Do you have any idea if many investors borrow from their home equity to get started?  

$400k equity is producing $1600/month cash flow for a return from the cash flow of 4.8%.  

Raising equity can be the most challenging aspect of closing a deal.

Does any one have any leads on lenders who provide loan for groundup constructions and the criteria?

They are a dual military couple so will use their other VA loan for their next house.They are willing to let us assume their current loan.

Hi,I am an investor in single family homes and am interested to use my equity in them to start investing in multi unit shopping center retail.