Lots and lots of folks group live as they are working hard while building cash nests. 

But at 24 I’m ready to leave the nest though I’m worried that by moving it’d eat up my savings and income and delay my goal to invest.

But there instances where you just run into stuff that you don't expect.You're tearing down the drywall and you find a nest of carpenter ants and they've eaten into the 2x4 studs.

I’d also love to create a sort of self sustaining nest egg that I could pass off to my kids as I get older.

Then save up the remainder of your paycheck to save up for investment plans. make frugal decisions with your lifestyle to accelerate, but dont make foolish decisions in raiding your TSP. thats a really good nest egg.

A parent's passing, retirement, empty nest, and family downsize are only a few examples.

At the same time, you will have a large enough nest egg  where I would recommend that you strongly consider the advantages of diversifying.  

I'm currently just building my nest egg as much as I can, so I can put in place as much preventative measure as possible in case I can't find a tenant.What would you do in my situation?

We don't make enough money right now to put away money towards investing but we do have a nest-egg of $10K saved that with the VA backed loan we hope will help get us started.Thank you for reading our long Intro, we're really excited to start this amazing journey with the BP community and meet some great people along the way. 

I do have a very very large nest that I have invested into stocks and such so I can handle some repairs and surprise evictions and such