This means: 1) all properties need to be acquired significantly below market (hard, but not impossible) & acquisition should be all cash so you're not paying interest during a potentially lengthy rehab 2) rents need to be high relative to acquisition price (1.5-2% rule, also hard, but not impossible if you did well in #1) 3) you need to budget for reserves and have access to non-bank lending to scale (both need to be incorporated into your business model for long-term viability) If one can't do all 3 of the above, it may be better to buy rather buy & hold with low leverage in a market likely to appreciate.  

I have an lengthy application, and I look over several applicants.  

FSBO’s are a great way to sell your home without having to pay agent fees and deal with lengthy contracts, just remember to have a bottom line price in mind and visualize how you want your home sale to go.

I think you'll have a really difficult time qualifying for a mortgage as a junior enlisted without BAH.A cash foreclosure fixer-upper may be doable, but you'll need the funds to both buy the property and make the necessary repairs and the foreclosure process can be a bit lengthy and incongruous with deployment or PCS schedules. 

I’ve found that the AAR is a bit too lengthy for sellers.

Trying to get short sale approval is a semi-lengthy process.

Since in residential investments, the rental payments is relatively easy to assess (people pay rent before they pay medical bills), it's a product that would have a high collection rate and therefore the interest rate can be somewhere between hard money lending and mezz loan rates; all of this without the hassle of a lengthy process and with no resource on the property (just on the person or a direct integration with the rent collection/settings up a lockbox for collecting rents and dispersing them to the owner bank account minus the monthly interest payments).

Quality sponsors with lengthy track records will offer lower returns to investors and vice versa so it may require interviewing them all to decide who knows what they're doing and is just young or who is a good operator that doesn't understand capital formation and cost of capital well.  

I'll try not to make this lengthy. 45 Days before my current lease was scheduled to end I contacted my tenant to find out if she was going to renew the lease.

The seller only wants to do cash buys and wants to avoid lengthy deals.