Marine

Going up through walls is easy, often just 2 small holes in the wall, one to drill the plate and and one for the cat, the cross piece between studs usually halfway up a wall. fishing in the direction of the joists is easy, going across them can be done with small holes spanning the joist, notching it for the cable, and then put a steel plate over it.Given that your problem unit is ground floor, it's likely you can fish up from the basement very easily for outlets using "old work" steel boxes, plastic boxes don't work with plaster on lath, it's too thick.

You may get lucky around that area or Mariners harbor. 

You can then figure out if that will work with what you can afford in the area and cross reference that to make sure your deals would still be attractive given the BAH rate for the area. 

With Marines, we get very minimal say in where we go but I would like to ask for the best opportunity to develop my real estate career.

Im 26yrs old U.S marine VET. very interested in RE investing.

So here's the problem; I'm a merchant mariner and my girlfriend is a travel nurse. 

I found the Bigger Pockets Money podcast, then Bigger Pockets podcast itself and now I am here in the forums, researching and planning to invest within the next calendar year *fingers crossed*.  

Rely on the experts for each aspect without crossing over their respective expertise. 

I don;t typically have appraisal issues as banks I use do in house evaluations or a cross-pledge other properties and keep under a specific LTV.Think through why it is important to you that you close fast.