Do you have equity in your primary residence (assuming you have one)?

What is your primary concern?

They needed primary markets, with huge volumes of homes.

My primary markets are the major metropolitan areas in Texas and Georgia. 

I purchased a primary residence in 2010 for 190k.  

Here's the question:I have my primary resedence (about 25% equity), and would like to finance the second home as an investment property using conventional loan.

@Brandon Johnson did your one primary residence throw off your business taxes?

Outside of that our primary residence is our only "asset" we have. 

One of the owners I contacted doesn't want to sell his primary residence, but has a triplex in another town that is fully rented.  

Folks,It is possible to build a Passivhaus compliant home (energy consumption <=15kWh/m^2 per annum) using off the shelf materials with a marginal increase in construction costs (~10-15% ... less as the workforce becomes more skilled).Primary heating and cooling of such a home can be accomplished via the ERV/HRV system with a small auxiliary heating source (there's a house here that has a 1500w auxiliary coil to provide additional heat to the fresh air supply during the coldest part of winter ... that's essentially replacing your furnace with a hair dryer).Even a near-Passivhaus construction (or retrofit) can lower energy costs 70% or more in comparison to the conventional (or even R2000) house being built in Canada these days.