Looking to be an active investor or passive investor in a deal? 

First, is the $35k the annual rent from each condo and is that coming from the STR activity report from the seller?

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.

@Andrew Wade first narrow down if you want to be an active or passive investor.

It's a stalemate due to affordability and either wages or prices give, I would bet the latter. 

One CPA is telling us that we need to file a partnership return for all LLCs and the other CPA is telling us that we can place all properties on our Schedule E and use Schedule C for our property management activities We like the Schedule E and C approach because it's cheaper.

Clearly, shes not happy and an unhappy tenant usually results in more issues down the road, and you can bet they'll be expensive issues. 

If you have a competitive advantage that you can bring to your co-hosting/managing, then I would recommend looking for owners with properties that mesh well with your target resident.For example, if you are an active duty military servicemember with unique insight into what a servicemember is looking for, lean into that.

Their solution was for me to take over ownership of not one but five homes from Jeff's portfolio, all of which I had sold him and subsequently leased.Despite my being patently unfinanceable, the bank president placed a bet on me because I knew the homes, I knew the tenants, I knew what I was doing, and I was rabidly hungry.

If you are hoping that this property will stand on its own with you living in it and not having to put your active income into it, then it might not be the best option for you right now.