These deals often go with seller financing because the owners know conventional financing limits their pool of qualified buyers and they usually like the tax deferred income with principal along with interest income.

Last, the contract will have the original price and is one of the drawbacks of an assignment.  

Principal Residence: A Principal Residence refers to a dwelling where the Borrower maintains or will maintain their permanent place of abode, and which the Borrower typically occupies or will occupy for the majority of the calendar year.

There is also a human rights case - cannot remember which province at the moment - over the matter.Canada's two principal credit bureaus - Equifax and TransUnion - both clearly state that a social insurance number is not necessary to conduct a credit history search.  

Use the VA loan, re-invest your cash flow to get the principal down, and refinance out of it into a traditional mortgage when able to free up the VA loan again, if you are still on active duty.Good luck!!!

The only expense that is not "deductible" is the principal portion of your mortgage payment (interest is good).

Flip enough times and you will be able to do as @J Scott describes, which is funnel the profits into another investment vehicle that is a much more passive income stream.RE is attractive because the sheer returns can outperform just about everything you can think of in terms of relative safety of principal vs. rate of return.

Fannie will want 2% of unpaid principal balances.

It isn't necessarily action, but may be informative that may relieve your stress.There may be one typo in your posting: you wrote the platform will not have obligation to return principal until a date.  

After the property is sold, you then return to your investors and pay them all the principal and interest.