You will find lot of people here who are seasoned investors and would love to help you out.What type of properties you are looking for your first deal & funding type?

Do not make the threat if you aren't ready to follow through with it.

@Deven Singh what does your lease say? 

Plus your contact at the banks Fraud or Audit department who you have been talking with. 

Since you’ll be saving your own living expenses by living in one of the units as required by the VA (to the best of my knowledge.) pretend you are paying rent and it should make your numbers look much better. 

Quote from @Johnny Lynum: Quote from @Billy Smith: I like SFH in the A-B area rent it you do the  upkeep  doing as much as possible your self to help max your rent out .I like to pay down the note as fast as possible .If in a C-D area I would flip the SFH wash your hands of it.SFH are generally easier to unload if you get in a cash crunch, I like staying in the first time home buyers level of a SFH  keeping it in a hot zone .If I were a BIG fish I would do deals at various level's of course after  doing the home work . 

That’s your home mortgage interest as well as property tax and insurance for 2nd half of the year.

Find something most everyone enjoys that is also unique to your community.

Before doing that, get numbers from a few contractors first  

If they refuse or fail to do so, I suspect the insurer will tell its insured, the lien appears to be unenforceable and to notify them (the insurer) if a suit is filed to enforce it.