While you can buy deals on the market by yourself (using the sellers realtor as your agent) I'm not sure that I recommend this for your first deal, so you're going to need a realtor eventually, may as well start now.

Else, you may a big fine by the fair housing law.

@Maya Dib @Justin Cory - VA loans are intended for owner-occupied, however, the needs of active duty military are considered, so if you do get orders, you are not in violation of the owner-occupied requirement.

"May a housing provider charge an extra fee or require an additional deposit from applicants or residents with disabilities as a condition of granting a reasonable accommodation?

I may as well chime in with a similar story.

May as well join some real estate clubs and make some friends now.

My properties are in another state and i use a bank in town, they also have all my mortgages, i feel if they are giving me the mortgages i may as well bank with them, that also helps for loans when you need them. you can pretty much do all your banking online nowadays, so it's easy to access the funds.

@Maya W. because of the great I-95 migration many business practices of NY/CT have made their way to the east coast of FL and in particular Ft Lauderdale and Boca/palm beach etc.One of these practices is that of attorney representation and attorney closings. 

If you sit around most weekends doing nothing productive, then you may as well put that idle time to work getting the best mortgage deal possible, #2 is a no brainer in this case... you might play some of that "wtf I already sent you that paperwork, why are you asking for it again?" 

Originally posted by @Maya Clark:More California cities will be dealing with rent control along with stricter rent controls in cities like Oakland that already have it if AB 1506 is successful as it's currently written...its really sad too because repealing Costa Hawkins and/or Ellis Act (separate bill that I can't recall # off top of my head) is not going to solve the lack of affordable rental housing or the growing homeless crisis...IMHO.