Or you could pay cash now and refi later.

The other nice benefit of 100% VA disability is that you pay NO PROPERTY TAX on your primary residence.  

Japanese mind set :)WE just make our money pay our tax's and try to stack cash so we can provide it others and rent the money for a fee :)

I am extremely gung-ho to have boots and the ground and gain more knowledge by the day.I am curious, as an agent who has been licensed for a few years, sold a few homes, but is coming back from hiatus, does anyone have any advice on where to begin?

If you pay more, you won't meet your metrics and will probably have negative cashflow and/or equity.You may have to make 10, 20 or even 100 offers to get one accepted at the price that meets your numbers.This is what all investors did BEFORE the Great Real Estate Crash of 2008-2010.

Focus on paying them off (smallest to largest), and you'll be living large in 20 years.

Do you think SCI can possibly pay a mortgage for ?

This allows you to use all of the tax and deferred depreciation recapture to purchase the larger MF propertyA consolidation exchange is where you sell multiple investment properties to purchase a larger and nicer investment property, but you also get the benefit of using all of the tax you would have had to pay to your advantage.

If your situation hasn't changed much, it might not be worth paying more for premier.

Fix the problem and make them pay for it.