I'm confident I could generate high quality housing sale leads, but need to figure how the best way to partner up to receive commission on sales I generate. 

Have you work with your VA on confidential information like that?

We will not share confidential or proprietary information regarding potential deals but competition is not a concern of successful developers.

After doing some research with a lot of my friends who live up there as well as zillow and the like, I'm confident I can get $1500 for the 3 br and $850 for the 1 bedroom when I move out.

That being said, I am fairly confident I can stay up top of industry updates. 

How do you treat a potential tenant who none of his recent two years landlords are giving any info about him (I have called two latest landlords , they say either can't release due to confidentiality or we don't have the records )He has good credit score and no red flag in background check 

They are now very 'hot' to get into REI & in the past we (confidentially) helped them with a couple of small high yield RE investments.

This information definitely makes me feel much more confident. I

You could accept the counter offer with the understanding her lease rate is confidential.

However, being a former military officer,  I am confident I can handle landlording college kids.