So property management, dealing with rents in some capacity, being a floor manager in college, showing an lease on a room you rent out in your current home...anything along those lines to show you have experience of SOME nature will be required when purchasing a multi-unit property with a VA loan. 

One of the charms of living in a small town is being near nature and having a close knit community.

(Of course that would be contingent upon you becoming an agent at that brokerage and staying there for 6-12 months or something of that nature.)Other good questions to ask them would be what are their commission splits, a breakdown of ALL fees (monthly or annually), what their commission cap is, whether they provide leads for you and if the commission changes if they do, how often they provide training and what the topics of the trainings usually are, do they provide mentoring to help you work through deals, etc.Also, keep in mind that there are fees that the Broker has no control over such as MLS access, ($300/6 mo in PA), Realtor dues if the Broker is a member of the association of Realtors ($600/yr in PA), marketing materials, cost of yard signs, networking associations to network with investors, etc.

Since these loans are short term in nature, almost all are interest only payments.

I’ll be glad to.Issue:Being Female.Being a black naturalized citizen, female at that.What is it with contractors and working with women?

@Bill S.Thanks so much for putting some time into my post - and I apologize for the somewhat vague nature of my questions.

As an investor it is natural that you would want to buy and hold more than 10 properties.

There are 2 questions that you have to ask to ascertain the legit nature of the service animal.https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/SERVANIMALS_NT...From experience, I will tell you that it is usually pretty clear when an animal is a legit service animal or ESA. 

Sounds like you naturally have some hustle.

Generally, insurance payouts reduce the basis in the property while the funds spent to make the repairs either increase the basis or might be able to be expensed all at once, depending on the nature of the repair/replacement and total funds spent per item.