Need to access equity in primary Need that equity for a down payment on a 4 plex.

Currently looking to purchase a primary residence out of state to house hack.

My husband and I will have our primary home mortgage paid off by July, and would like to purchase our first investment property.

Now depending on the number of times you've used the program, your specific military service in some cases, and the loan type there are funding fees for the VA loan program; if you're at 0%-4% down, it's under >4%, 5%-9% down, it's a little over 1.5%, and over 10% down under 1.5%.So if you wanted to sell the investment after time and use this as your primary & house hacking until ‘dream home’ days (or moving out of your in-laws), you could sell and pay off the original loan balance and go this route or pay off original loan amount without selling and keeping it and apply for the one time benefit restoration - which is not the same as entitlement re- installment for active/permanent change of station orders or foreclosed upon properties.

Until September of 2018 it was my primary residence.

We own two properties:-Our primary residence: $345K left on mortgage (about 28 years remaining since we refi'd 2019).

The FHA 203b and the FHA 203k allow you to buy mixed-use residential as well as 1-4 unit residential properties as long as the primary borrower intends to occupy the property as their primary residence for a minimum of 1 year. 

The application was confusing and asked questions such as "Future rent - Yes/No" with no explanation of what they were asking.  

In my younger days I leaned towards buying homes that were easy rental converts, that was a great wealth building strategy and I ended up doing it a few times over, but a lot of that was possible because my primary career and incomes kept growing fast.

I'm going to be using my license primarily for my own transactions, so my primary objective is to find a broker with a favorable commission structure to the agent and a good reputation.