In this situation, likely would pay more than an owner occupant would.Do you not use comps to compare values?

If your seller or buyer believes that you are representing them in the transaction, rather than an interested party to a contract, then you could have issues.    

If you truly exhaust your list of banks and lenders, wait 14 months and try again.

Ok @Jeff Langley, here is a short list of lenders that offer some kind of HELOC on investment properties - Wells FargoBank of AmericaUS BankFlagstarPenFed Credit UnionAlliant Credit UnionFifth Third BankTD BankThis is not an exhaustive list and the lending requirements are much stricter than on a primary home and many branches aren't familiar with them.

Tampa, the young lady started out with a very sketchy lawyer outside of Tampa in Riverview who said he also was the Title Company and did not have a secretary or more than an answering machine to try to get details done for the sale.

The crickets are chirping now because buying a home to live in usually ends up as a liability, rather than an asset, which is an essential distinction for an investment. 

I’ll never carry the loan to term, but if I did, the financed cost of the new build would be lower than an existing home.

Working toward anything other than an affluent future, without real money backstopping us now and in the future, was no longer an option.That's when I told my wife I was all-in with her, and we decided on real estate as the lever we were going to pull to get to financial independence and beyond.

Likewise the savvy realtors at the other agencies locally will contact him after they’ve exhausted their in-house resources if they think I might want something.

While I cannot exhaust this conversation on this forum, I will highlight the main advantages.1.