That’s the short answer…  Establish your standards as soon as you can.  

Operational and well established in the town at the time of purchase.

Operational and well established in the town at the time of purchase.

As has been stated, you cannot flat out deny, but you can establish a process and a policy that will serve to separate the pure liars from the responsible ESA handlers.

I was planning on having a pole barn built or some simple shelter on another lot to see if that may attract some buyers. 

Well I had a few contractors out and one of them ended up also being a pretty established investor in central MA that has been in the game for a while.

The existing 2 bed is an established Airbnb that averages $2000 a month in revenue when we choose to operate it, as a long term lease we could get $1200 for it, and 3 bed apartments in our area average $1500.

The neighborhood has a lot to do with your underwriting as caprate does. 

If the veteran’s employment requires the veteran’s absence from home a substantial amount of time, the following two conditions must be met: • the veteran must have a history of continuous residence in the community, and • there must be no indication that the veteran has established, intends to establish, or may be required to establish, a principal residence elsewhere.

The plan for the home is to live in, make renovations, become established with land-lording other rentals for about 3-5 years when I plan on converting the loan to a conventional loan and reusing the VA loan on a different primary residence while turning the original Va loan property into another rental.