This is a crucial vehicle to your early success as a veteran.If you don't know where you will settle when you first get back, getting started learning markets that are interesting to you (and you may also like to be close to) is very wise.

Avoid lenders that want to escrow your payments at closing, this increases your cash to close drastically and, in my opinion, is not the best structure even for new investors.

Luckily we are very close so we are very open to creatives approaches to maximizing this.

Acquired the property with cash (to compete with all-cash buyers at the time) and then refinanced 2-3 months post-close How did you add value to the deal?

I just had to fight tooth and nail to close a VA condo purchase for a client with a POA that was actually fairly well run, relatively speaking.

I do not recall any other fees or charges outside of traditional closing costs and they were easy to work with and communicated very well. 

I've got one program that my fast flippers like for its 'no seasoning' requirement, and then a few 90-day seasoning programs that work really well also.Occupancy: some programs can refinance vacant properties, while others will simply need it to be leased prior to closing.

Same scenario, with a 5,5,5,5,5 PPP structure Rate: 7.25% PAR30 Years Fixed I just closed on a DSCR loan at 5.7% last week. 7.25% is insane… On both conventional and DSCR programs you can get any rate you would like.

Unfortunately, there's been reports of user accounts being closed without any reason.

It seems I would need to submit around 100 offers just to achieve a potential engagement of 2% to 5%, with no guarantee of closing any deals.Thank you for your response, I definitely appreciate it.