Say I pull out my equity (your reference to "all your deposit back"), then wouldn't the monthly mortgage go up?

I would like to pull out a HELOC on a duplex that I bought for $92000, put down $13000, now have an existing loan for $79000, but if I can make a few updates and repairs to the exterior... this is in a market where this house would be worth $160000

A lot of it just comes naturally.  

I learned many things about real estate that I didn't know about, even simple things such as pulling public records of homes and seeing how much a person paid for a property as well as seeing the current year's value assessment of a home.

The thing i am considering now, is if i want to do a 100% VA cash out refinance to pull about $80k from the home or refinance it as a conventional loan to free up my entitlement to use again to buy another home zero down

If you can't pull that out, then it may be in a Policy/Procedure document which you will have to make a special request for.2. 

Most of the times the reason someone is considering pulling personal funds together with their retirement funds is because there is not enough funds individually to make such investment.

My first fixer upper I had to do a FHA and pay PMI but all I did was cash out refi in 6 months which allowed me to pull out all my cash and get rid of PMI.

So at the most you're only a year behind where you would naturally pass that entrance exam. 

Do we refinance now while prices are high in order to pull out as much equity as possible for more purchases while rates are still low?