Allen, go out of your local area to invest.  

Hi BP, would like to hear feedback from all you folks in or near the Kansas City area,Currently I'm looking for a software to help me generate leads, but there's so many of them to choose from, I don't know which is best suited for my area.

@Ralph Concentine Welcome to Bigger Pockets! 

Leverage is key and the diversity of options is also good.

Challenge is getting tenants to accept no-keys and changing batteries during their stay.

You have an excellent jump start- the VA loan is such an amazing tool to get the ball rolling.

I also doubt very seriously that any brokerage/custodian is going to allow this kind of loan with 401k assets; it's likely going to need to be a 401k general purpose loan, which is highly regulated (as someone else mentioned). 

However, if you learn the different options available and then figure out what they really want, you can often negotiate a killer deal.

You can also do a Google search to get a ton of resources.

Then I will only have taxes and insurance to pay each year.