I'd like to start small with 1-2 STR tiny house(s) or other less expensive "alternate housing" options (yurt, airstream, etc).

If there is a credit, then that will be handled in escrow.Yes, make sure that you try and use all the money from the sale of the first home and if there was a loan on the property it also needs to be replaced on the up leg. 

I've decided to take my experience to the next level and venture into flipping houses myself and hoping to see it become more full-time in the future.  

I have lived in the property for more than 3 years and we have been the only occupants in the home since it was built.The potential cashflow isn't the best but our primary goals were to build up the equity in the home to be able to potentially purchase other properties in the future with the chance that we may return to the house in the future.The property is in the Castle Hills area in the northern side of DFW which for those who don't know is generally a neighborhood with higher income tenants. 1. 

I currently own a property under a USDA loan, which has $100k in equity and generates $250 a month in cash flow from rent.

My goal is to buy the house, terminate the section 8 lease as soon as possible (at the lease term, to avoid eviction process), and search myself for other better tenants.

Bank loan How did you add value to the deal?

There are a few ways to go about structuring the loan for you on favorable terms. 

Loans maturing and in some locations lots of inventory coming online. 

So that is more a way you can still lose the house, even though you thought you bought it.We have had an owner declare bankruptcy on the day of the sale, but the sale went through due to the late filing.