I always feel no matter what you do, or what course you go with, you continue to use BP and the other valuable resources to supplement and continue your education.If you've not listened to podcasts (especially the Flipping Junkie podcast and the BP podcast ;)), you should definitely start there.  

Buy an umbrella insurance policy to supplement your other insurance.  

Right now this is supplemental so I don't need big paydays.

It was cheaper for us because we did all the work ourselves.One thing to remember - make sure to account for the cost of the supplemental materials.

Just went to boot camp graduation at Great Lakes a couple weeks ago. 900 new recruits every Friday, quite a ceremony.If you can swing it, buying a house at every duty station, then keeping the house and renting when the orders come, makes a nice supplemental retirement plan.I know several military that have houses scattered across the country.One year I was at Wright Pat in November, and it was the coldest Nov I can remember.

@Wayne SmithI would supplement the Smart Move search with a quick glance at the Harris County Clerk site here to check for evictions in civil cases and any criminal cases, assuming your tenants have always lived locally. http://www.hcdistrictclerk.com/Edocs/Public/search...

With that said, I recently began looking into investing in a new state, and ordered a title report to supplement research on a property I had already done.

They were also looking at the 3.8% medicare supplement tax and a state capital gains tax for Arizona. 

I can supplement this with the rental income from the best SFRs and multifamily already in the portfolio and call it a day.If I didn't mind adding additional rentals and the incremental management involved I would go SFR buy and hold all the way but unfortunately after the recent price run up I would not be very interested in the 5% returns that the market is offering.

The following questions are specific and will help supplement our attempt to answer a more general question: What is the best long term corporate structure for our business?