@Sannibel Carter if you are looking to do some of your own flips volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.

Laura thank you as well for your input I just think I would be a lot better as selling investments that SFH's and would like to add you to get occasional help or ask questions when and if I have any.I was going to start real estate investment this year but decided to grow my capital a little by volunteering to be deployed for the second year in a row. ( the first was iraq).I'll be using my VA loan to buy a 4 unit and plan on refinancing and moving into another four my entire life as often as I can.

<---- This guy is a volunteer at the Summit now. please be sure to sanitize your hands frequently since I'll be shaking many of your hands.

If students can't afford music classes, they can volunteer at the community center to earn credit towards classes.

We volunteer with Scouts and school. 

We have excellent credit, but due to focussing on Volunteer work and not working full time the past few years, we lack the capital for a down payment. 

.- 1 cash for keys (basically a cheaper alternative to eviction), this was a professional tenant for whom this was a plan from the beginning- 1 drug addict who left voluntarily for fear of having her voucher taken away (lots of property damage and 2 broken windows from when one of her friends overdosed on something)- 1 lady who illegally sublet my apartment to a drug dealer (there was an FBI raid in that apartment about 3 months after she moved)- 1 "handyman" tenant who never had money to pay his share of rent but always volunteered to do repairs, most of his repairs ended up being temporary mickey-mouse repairs that ended up costing me more in the end, in the end he and his wife left with almost $4000 in unpaid back rent- 1 lady who always had sketchy visitors over including a "friend" who supposedly had a slip and fall accident on my porch and is still suing my insurance company over it- Almost tenant threw a tantrum because I asked for a co-signer since security deposit was not coming from her own funds, she complained to MCAD (Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination) because I supposedly discriminated against her by asking for a co-signer when I wouldn't have asked for one if the security deposit came out of her own funds.

On writing a book, recording a podcast each week, volunteering with a local non-profit that's building a network of walking/biking paths, coaching my kids sports - definitely still do a lot of work!!

I'd probably look at maybe pulling equity out of your existing rental first, if possible, before I would volunteer to take a ~40% tax/penalty 401(k) hit.  

If so and you are serious about inviting looky-loos to tag along PM me, because I definitely volunteer for that.