You are going to have to find pretty smoking deal in order to be able to refinance in one year with the 20% equity required to remove PMI.

I would avoid High Equity list cause there's a lot of competitionStep 2 : Start doing marketing.

In a perfect world (also just my opinion) it would be an amazing way to get a 4 plex and live in it for the required time all the while ensuring that at the 2/3 year point you have 20% equity in it so you can refinance to a traditional loan and then take your VA loan and do it again and again and again.  

As investors, we aim to purchase deals with immediate equity.

I had a note investor today tell me he rather have 100 notes vs 100 units.His reason was no toilets, termites, tenants.What about the benefits of depreciation, equity, etc in owning the real estate?

In my experience the listing agent favors the property owner more than buyer.

We chose to keep the equity in the property's and reinvest , reinvest. 

My plan is to make some exterior cosmetic renovations and renovate the two other units, but I have no idea what the arv is.You have to either buy or create equity to BRRRR.  

The good news is I was able to get everything done on the cheap wIth my contracting know how and sweat equity.

Do you plan to pull any of that equity out for other deals or are you just going to enjoy the cash flow?