Welcome to BiggerPockets and best of luck investing!

In my area specifically most investment type property listings are properties that were purchased 1 to 2 years ago.

We paid off our primary home last year and have been slowly getting the courage to jump into the investing market where we live in the Pacific Northwest.

Once you're ready, create a goal (e.g., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.

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.

I'm currently investing in the Milwaukee area.

There are also several funds out there that provide high single digit yields that are low risk. 

another single family home?

I have been investing in the Las Vegas market for a couple years.

An example of a mistake was a line item for alimony that I found on my taxes (I am single and have never been married).