My goal is to acquire enough properties and do enough flips to walk away from full-time work in 10 years. I have a lot of equity in my home that I plan on putting to use to start this. I here to get all the info I can...

This has allowed me to keep moving my retirement account towards full vesting age as I’m not quite there yet.

Someday I would like to possibly have 4-5 homes that I would be renting out that could possibly help me retire a little early as well as provided continued cashflow in retirement.

I am hopefully, 9-10 years away from retirement, and plan on owning 7-10 rental SFR in that time frame.

My sister lives there and our good friend sold his storage facility a year ish ago in Morgantown b/c he got a great offer and wanted to retire... 

Thank you for your service as I was also in the military and recently retired.

If you can retire the title and have it then be considered real estate it should have significant value.

With that said, I am considering jumping into a house hack using my VA Loan and then repeating the process every 1-2 years until I can accumulate enough properties to help supplement retiring one day.I am doing research on the climate of things right now in the market but the reality is I need a new place to live and house hacking seems like the best way to invest my money and lower my monthly overhead costs so I can save money. 

This was how I did it until I retired. 

Here is a list of lenders who specialize in this:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/2810/50272-list-o...Doing private lending from 401k is arguably the best way to invest your retirement funds.