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

How is this overhead advancing Radd's investment activities? 

Is your goal to use being an agent for your own personal investments or actively try and grow your agent business to eventually leave your W2?

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?

The ZIPs with the most activity?

Engage an investor-focused realtor/broker in your preferred market (this is not a residential realtor) and start 'tire kicking' the market and properties that fit your criteria.

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.

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

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

@Shelby Ek Do you need to activate the utilities in order to qualify for the loan you are getting?