The lender didn't understand that mine and my co-signers (my mother) income were both from self-employment and after he found out a couple months after giving him all this information and being approved, we were called and told he can no longer go through with it.Needless to say, my girlfriend is very upset as this was going to be a primary residence for us to start a family (as well as a location for my personal training business).

I bought and lightly fixed and sold a property; I bought and fully rehabbed another house and sold; I bought a short sale and fixed it up as my primary residence; I’m in the process of a flip that has extensive work (just closed on Wednesday); I had a rental for almost three years.

Buy your personal residence with 3.5% down then utilize your other 9 25% down mortgages on 1-4 unit properties.

Two-ish years ago I purchased my first home, a single family residence, in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

Hey BPso im a canadian resident and i own a property in SWFL in cape coral worth about 200k, it is fully paid off so no liens or mortgage or anything.Im looking to refinance it to pull out my cash and move to another project and just rent this out, I called the bank of america and they told me they could give me 50k or something line of credit with 19% interest secure with my house but thats obviously not what i want at all.

The reason I ask this question is because of THIS "requirement""The Zoning Board will make the final decision....Residents in the neighborhood will be notified of the public hearing and will also have a say" Something along these lines.

It's a small percentage now but unfair: why should I have to pay any tax on money that is not technically rental income and just an accounting service provided to the residents. 

We checked... this 401K will only loan on primary residence.

." - Did you use to live there as your primary residence?

I like your HELOC strategy for pulling money out of you primary residence then using that to buy another rental.