I just read and took comprehensive notes from three books on real estate investing:- Long-Distance Real Estate Investing (David Greene)- The Book On Rental Property Investing (Brandon Turner)- Home Owning For Dummies (Eric Tyson & Ray Brown)I was particularly drawn to Brandon Turner's REI business plan templates for new investors, and I liked his ten-year fourplex trade up model.

I just read and took comprehensive notes from three books on real estate investing:- Long-Distance Real Estate Investing (David Greene)- The Book On Rental Property Investing (Brandon Turner)- Home Owning For Dummies (Eric Tyson & Ray Brown)I was particularly drawn to Brandon Turner's REI business plan templates for new investors, and I liked his ten-year fourplex trade up model.

I just read and took comprehensive notes from three books on real estate investing:- Long-Distance Real Estate Investing (David Greene)- The Book On Rental Property Investing (Brandon Turner)- Home Owning For Dummies (Eric Tyson & Ray Brown)I was particularly drawn to Brandon Turner's REI business plan templates for new investors, and I liked his ten-year fourplex trade up model.

I split all household costs by percentage-of-income with my live in girlfriend, so I pay about 70% of everything.

Long story short, have roughly $80k in bad debt, make nearly $110k household income, and am a military member serving overseas in Germany trying to get back into the Real Estate investment world.Now for the question: Do we continue to focus on debt(on track to be debt free next summer) and then save up for a down payment/100% down when we go back to the states at the end of 2021, OR do we put our Dave Ramsey inspired debt snowball on hold and start investing from overseas? 

If the market is known to appreciate you could be alright.You talked about a significant amount of household income.....

When people are debating this topic its often anecdotal, and emotional no true data backs up people's claims of what is being made in the trades, from BLS, IRS, or even Census Data which tracks job profiles of top 10% earning households at the Census Tract, or Zipcode level.

@Dean Letfus thanks for quick and comprehensive reply.

Look at the amount of households, ages, number of units etc. 

you may want to talk to a wealth manager one that charges a set fee.. and come up with a comprehensive plan that may or may not even include real estate.. real estate is work and risk.from all appearances you don't need to risk.