Sometimes people tend to think that all military members are saints, and won't possibly do anything to burn them. 

Burn them.

Addressing the problems is like trying to put out small individual fires in a forest that is burning.

C) So with your income and I assume net worth, you don't want to burn through those borrowing a small (to you) amount of money.

From what I can tell so far, the house could burn to the ground and the fireplace would remain standing in the ashes.

Real estate is a team sport, and there is no way any investor can do it all on their own, unless they want to burn out.Don't consider moving up, you are already at that point.  

I had a window guy I USE to trust..he burned me on my last job and I'm glad that happened to me because I probably would of recommended him to you before that happened. 

Between work, my house, fixing up the rental property, family, and other priorities, I tend to burn the candle at both ends.

It's difficult here to differentiate between giving good advice and advocating mentorship programs, workshops or courses to advance your one on one activity and thus speed up the learning curve and timeline to reaching and stretching your goals.I personally have gone the journey from DIY wholesaling, flipping, seller-financing SFR and international Short Term Vacation Rental management and then arrived at commercial multifamily and self-storage real estate syndication due to the fact that it offers the maximum scalability, economy of numbers and at some point truly leads to passive, residual income and thus to time freedom and choice.Send me a colleague request to kick the tires, set up a call and get a few burning questions answered in real time, one on one. 

I went to go look at a flip once in a "transitioning" neighborhood.... didn't take long for a crazy guy to come approach my realtor and explain in great length and detail how he'd burn the building down if we bought it.