The primary reason investors have difficulty with PM companies is because they have no idea of how to manage a property themselves.

Would this be the HELOC from your primary residence?

With your VA entitlement you can purchase a 1-4 unit property with 0% down, but you have to live in one of the units as your primary residence. 

I wanted to know what I would have to do to establish my parents home as my primary residence, and refer to my DC property as an investment.

Scenario:Im renting out rooms in my primary residence.

I'm not looking at airbnb as a quick fix alternative where right away I will start making 6 figure income, but im looking at it as something which can one day make me less dependent upon income from my present occupation only and perhaps become a primary source of income. 

We have used savings and personal loans and our HELOC on our primary.

What is your primary source of funding and how are you structuring your deals to allow for enough cashflow to live on?

I know the house hacking concept but we rent in a really nice neighborhood and we have no plans for buying primary residence, I was want to start rentals buy and hold for passive income later refi and get the next one ans so on....

We use MINT.com, which is nice.According to MINT, what is largely dragging our credit score down (it's a 758) is credit utilization.That's a few credit cards here and there but predominantly our HELOC is 60% utilized and bringing up our total credit utilization up over 40%.I'm under the understanding that many people use HELOCs as a great way to pull out equity from their primary residence.I don't understand why one would be penalized from having a stronger equity position in their primary residence?