How to continue purchasing rentals

[Bianca Rodrigues]

I have a single family (use to be primary then switched to STR) investment property and a three family that I currently owner occupy. I'm trying to leverage the equity from the investment property but running into DTI being higher than the underwriter would like. How do investors continue to pull equity from another property without their DTI being sky high?

Would creating an LLC for my investment property be beneficial in the sense of lowering my DTI?

Thank you