That would give you several years to continue to invest, save, get some cash flow from the property, before going to the bank for conventional financing.

We won’t be staying here forever, and I wanted to have my VA loan available for when we do move, so thanks to the INSANE amount of appreciation in the Southwest Idaho market, we have well over 20% equity now and just refi’ed our house into a conventional 30-year mortgage with the same interest rate and I’m in the process of doing the one-time restoration to fully free up my VA loan to use again.

You can buy an SFR with an FHA loan of 3.5% and a cosigner or a conventional loan with a cosigner and 5% down.

In David Greene's BRRRR book, he suggested that it is better to wait and save up for a BRRRR as opposed to the speedier route and just doing a conventional loan on a SFH.Would you guys advise on saving up 100k on a BRRRR with a chance to repeat and get the reps of REI much more frequently, or use 50k on a SFH because it's less complicated and can be a good intro into REI?

I am currently in the process of re-financing into a conventional 30 year loan so I can use my VA loan to buy another property.

I've been able to use conventional loans (credit union) for my small multi-family purchases.

im looking into other alternatives for purchasing as well as i currently do not qualify for conventional financing.

Conventional through local credit union How did you add value to the deal?

Then we effectively double the # of conventional loans allowed. 3.

Looking for a loan to build equity by adding an ADU or an addition to the house, refinancing by april/may into a conventional loan and hoping to take the PMI off.