Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.

Plus if you are getting priced out of every other deal, moving too slow for on market houses, your realtor telling you that this is a bad time to invest, etc. then you may pull the trigger on a bad deal.

Knowing I have a VA loan with a low interest how can I leverage that and not trigger the due on sale clause?

It's a loophole, and it will eventually close, everywhere.Any property I buy going forward that I plan to hold long term I will only buy in areas that are already extremely strictly regulated for STRs. 

Be careful; the rules for qualifying for a real estate professional are extremely complex - it is an area of the tax code that many practitioners and even judges (tax court cases) have gotten wrong.

(If you would like to track market expectations of rate changes, the FedWatch tool from the CME Group is extremely useful.)However, yields and mortgage rates can be greatly changed by Federal Reserve actions—the real drivers are the policy press releases and press conferences (typically scheduled for the early afternoon, a couple of hours after the publication of the decision).

We all know the Block to Block saying but in these areas of extremely tight living conditions its not only block to block but houses to house.

Having done this over 10 years a good Christian family with both parents employed whom had just bought a house and was always extremely kind and courteous did not strike me as the ones to do this. 

If you are inside a city limits or police jurisdiction, the inspection department can tell you what is required currently, what is triggered by property updates, and what the exceptions are.

., I think it would be EXTREMELY difficult to work from pictures.