Moved out 4 years later and it cashflowed $1,500 a month.

What people tend to think is that you can just buy a move-in ready property at top dollar and expect to live for free. 

@Amy Lemaistre Homes in the Augusta market can move fast depending on the price point, location, and finishes. 

I was in a position where I needed to lever it somehow while I was still an owner occupant (I since have moved out of that building and rent it out as a rental), and ended up taking a heloc.

Trying to determine my next move!

It's often pretty modest those first years after moving using FHA or 5% down.

They are much more challenging to get once I move out.  

That has nothing to do with any liens or loans attached to the property--they still stick to that property.To learn more, speak directly to a VA mortgagee/lender or mortgage broker about how to assume the loan and how/if you can absolve the current borrower from any liability.Keep investing and moving forward!

Let them leave smoothly and get it rented again and move on

I am following since there is a possibility I might consider a move to Katy, Texas and that is close to Houston.