Essentially, your rate and term do not change, only the payment due to a sizeable paydown of principle. 

I'm screening for my first tenants and wondering essentially, must you always process applications in the order they are received?

Account Closed  yes you do have to work under a managing broker, but many brokerages are set up so the the agents are essentially in business for themselves as independent contractors, responsible for getting their own clients and handling all the details of their transactions.

You are essentially doing a self- redemption. 

Its a 3 bed/ 1.5 bath, 1200 sf, on .25 ac and in the best school district in town.

Ideally, finagling not even having to put any cash down by refinancing and taking that bit of cash to use as the down payment for the construction loan, it would be great to have our current lender managing all of this so they are essentially releasing the lot to themselves again for the construction loan. 

For detailed information, please contact the municipality itself.BANKS TOWNSHIP (Treskow, PA 18254) Telephone #: (570) 454-8291 Short term rentals are permitted use within any single family dwelling in all zoning districts in Banks Township.BEAVER MEADOWS BOROUGH (Beaver Meadows, PA 18216) Telephone #: (570) 455-7841 No rules or regulations affecting Short-Term Rentals in Beaver Meadows Borough have been published..

So essentially I thought that I was getting 55k of equity using the following numbers 108 per square foot x 2100 = 226,800 when in fact the numbers are 108 per square foot x 1590 = 171,720 It’s not about having cold feet it’s the fact that when the size changed the reality of the deal changed.

Essentially, the questions is - does anyone have a recommendation for a specialist in self-storage who can assist with this project from infancy to completion (including securing bids, consulting, management, etc.)?

@Robert Leonard is exactly right..standard VA home loans are intended to put military members and veterans into move-in ready homes that don't require significant repairs.There is a separate loan product called the VA Renovation loan, which essentially packages a home purchase loan and a home improvement loan into a single product.