Also it would mean I get a different tenant pool for example travel medical professionals, displaced people due to insurance claims, digital nomads, etc and I really want to expand my knowledge outside of long term tenants and challenge myself to have a diverse portfolio of real estate! 

Seems pretty standard, VA isn't as tied to credit scores as conventional would be. 

If the end product is similar to conventional construction, and is compliant with applicable building codes then I think you're good to go.I think you should also consider where you might start. 

Personally I’d go to Lowe’s and buy a set of machines that only has dials for controls, no electric, digital panel.

You can even create a balance sheet if you want to get crazy.I definitely recommend scanning all of your documents associated with the rental using a free app like Genius Scan and get those into some sort of digital document management platform such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

.- **Financing Options**: Look into FHA loans or conventional loans that allow owner-occupancy.

They can get you access to conventional lending, and loans insuredunder CMHC (regular, as well as MLI select).

This is the job that would support a conventional loan.

Would you see yourself using a tool like this, or is it just another shiny object that’ll collect digital dust?

Conventional financing How did you add value to the deal?