More than likely, the loan officer on your file either A) didnt know their own product very well, or B) glossed over this aspect in order to get the loan to closed due to a lack of integrity. 

Or you’re not budgeting for a great product and will be obsceleted in the near future.My team provides all the above without hefty consultation fees like many STR experts/gurus do.  

Warren Buffet has discussed this in the past saying if you had all the gold in the world you would have a giant cube of gold except for minor industrial uses, but if you had all the farmland in the world you would be able to produce a product (food) that people would buy, thus giving you a return on investment.

@Andrew M. yeah, if you opened a HELOC while you opened while living there then it's likely that they don't want to extend that current product.  

Great tools that get updated regularly.I am on the lending side of things and would be happy to hop on a call with you anytime to discuss financial strategies and help answer any questions you may have about nearly any loan product available to help you on your journey, even if they are not products my capital partners offer.We are all here to help you learn and grow.

For acquisition, I use my local hard money lender that holds the best loan product with a 100% purchase/100% rehab hard money loan!

What happens when you add purchasing power into a product shortage environment?

If you can find smaller local banks in the market you pick they may have more unique products that they keep on their balance sheet or try and do the 5% down conventional on a 4-unit  FHA's self-sufficiency test applies to both 3 and 4-unit properties.

Great tools that get updated regularly.I am on the lending side of things and would be happy to hop on a call with you anytime to discuss financial strategies and help answer any questions you may have about nearly any loan product available to help you on your journey, even if they are not products my capital partners offer.We are all here to help you learn and grow.

To me this is very market dependent and product dependent.. in our Market some developments that are red hot that Lennar owns they might only offer 5k on a 600k sale.