FHA should have the lowest interest rate compared to conventional products but yes the MIP makes it unattractive. 

Lenders usually focus on one category or the other, and it sounds like the property is currently in one category or type of loan product, and the work you want to do on it puts it into another loan category, or a different type of loan product. 

Each program has a variety of different loan types and assistance amounts, rates and availability of the different products can fluctuate.

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They should be able to tell you about their products without the credit pull, then only the places you decide to move forward with would pull your credit. 

However those phone calls rarely turned in to seeing some actual product because I alway make it a point to discuss pricing first (no sense in running through a few hundred notes and pricing is way off).  

Would love to connect and get on the horn regarding the processes you've set up and compare our experiences (particularly the utilization of a VA to increase productivity as this would definitely be a value-add for me!) 

You could easily put all that equity to a more productive use.

There are synergistic enhancements to a workflow that can only be performed when a group is working together in an office.