We do land entitlement so we control all sites and tie them up until zoning is approved. we don't buy land that we can't entitle first

Additional costs will creep in and costs seem to go up faster than rents, so I would sell and try to otherwise optimize the VA loan. 

Spring is best obviously so we may be a little early, but that’s ok.

So you need to ask yourself: is this something I want to do?  

So we opened up an LLC and he funded it with $100,000.

So PLEASE don’t make another huge financial decision and then tell that same person after you do it.

That is why it is hard to get regular real estate loans on assets valued so low, the cost of the refinance makes it so you are paying higher than they can legally charge you percentage wise.

If so, you open yourself up to a larger pool of candidates.

We haven't lived in the townhouse in the last 2/5 years so we would get hit with full capital gains.

 So when I get on Bigger Pockets, I use my iPhone.