I am actually currently in the market for a primary residence and have been doing a lot of property research.

Does anyone have any experience managing while traveling for their primary job ?

If we were to buy in LA it would be for our primary residence.  

We ran into this in our primary home.

I am a Financier/Investor, whose primary objective is to finance any project in the areas of Real Estate, Construction and any other meaningful businesses in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

I bought my first home about 6 months ago, it is my primary residence. 

We buy for cash using a credit line from my primary residence.

I originally purchased the property as my primary residence, lived in it for 5 years then bought another home down the street and kept the original as a rental.

As far as I know, no, you don't have to refi the first one to buy the second, so long as you have lived in the first long enough to satisfy the seasoning requirements to have called it your primary residence as an O/O.Once you have been there for a while, call up your lender and tell him/her that you want to buy a new place and you plan on living there for a while.  

If it doesn't work out for me, I was going to have my friend purchase it as a primary residence.