Purchasing a home is typically seen as a longer term time investment and a commitment to a location, especially by young 18,19 year old fresh military personnel (most teens in general), and renting is much easier to up and out if you were to get orders and have to leave the Fayetteville area.

I want to thank you all for taking the initiative to contribute as there are many resourceful experts and personnel on here.

I havent studied the area much but what little I do know is it operates on a different wavelength to some extent due to the amount of military personnel there.I believe with the drawdown of troops from overseas areas around Junction 2-5 years ago were on a building boom - not sure if it's still happening like that or not.

Building personnel accompanies the lookers, but I believe during these showings, either during or after, my apartment was burglarized.

. - Use move in - move out checklist- Use standard contract for leasing - Get information on whether the tenant is an active duty personnel.

Example: property is owned by ABC corp, with no management personnel contact information provided.What salutation have you had success with?

Over the years we've seen a huge number of active military personnel here on BiggerPockets and one of the biggest questions has always been how to invest in the US while serving.We just completed what we believe to be a pretty comprehensive guide to help these folks out:Investing in American Real Estate While Serving in the US MilitaryPlease check it out and if you know someone who is serving, do pass this along to them.

Join the town Facebook garage sales groupAlso in small towns, call the school district , fire department and police department personnel department and let them know you have a property available 

There are maintenance personnel that have experience in servicing apartment needs. 

As such, in this newbies opinion, the Fort Walton Beach, Shalimar, Destin, Crestview (et.al.) areas of the Florida Panhandle are all excellent buy-and-hold investment opportunities due to the very large movement of military personnel (both large and small families) in and out of the area while they serve at one of the many large military installations; i.e.