I will begin to weed through the second level of resources local to the area of the deal. 

My wife and I are looking to buy a home next year and ideally would like to find a lease with an option to buyWe spoke to an agent and he said they could approve us as soon as we have two years of taxes for our cleaning company and we’re halfway through our second year now so we’d like to rent the house we finance basically is that something you guys would find realistic?

He made the second bedroom a living room.

The thing with NZ is that most small or rural areas only boom every second or third cycle.

Orbirental  had originally been my second choice. 

Mine take zero seconds per booking the bookings just come in and I send an automated thank you/instructions 

A young woman, young man, and the young mans father.

I was in my first VA home for about 9 months, moved for work and got a second VA loan in the new location while keeping the old VA loan.

I’m just looking for second opinions. 

If you were in your late 20s/ early 30s, it might be different (but that is just my opinion, and everyone's situation is different).For the second question, I think you should consider multi family (duplex, triplex, quad) so that you can house hack.