Your VA loan will be crucial to your real estate investing growth, especially since it affords you the potential opportunity to own more than one property, depending on your overall allotment.For active military personnel, that conundrum of where to invest and where you will end up is always part of the issue that sometimes causes analysis paralysis so it's great you have one in VA Beach already.

Since this is a short-term flip, the IRS usually sees it as active income, but if your role is truly hands-off, there might be a way to treat it differently.Have you thought about how you’re structuring the deal?

That way you know they are active in the BP community!

For bookkeeping purposes, I recommend designating a separate bank account exclusive to the house hack activities to keep some sanity.

Quote from @Allen Masry: Quote from @Chris Seveney: Do you want to be active or passive ?

Networking with local real estate investor groups can also help identify lenders active in your area.

Learn what people are doing right now in this difficult market and find a way to replicate their success.A lot of people say they are actively investing.

I have a template that I provide and they can either complete the template or just give me their documents and I'll complete the template before prepping the taxes.Self Managed, High Volume, Very Organized - these folks keep up on their activity. 

There's an adage in several sports about critical things like protective gear: "a $10 helmet for a $10 head."

I've been in the investment space almost 9 years now, and been actively investing in flips myself, the last year.