Hi I am 18 years old and I've been really interested in Commercial Real Estate investing since I was 16 and I don't much about CRE investing and I would really love some advice on how too start funding your first property, and where I can learn CRE investing,  I've also been thinking about joining the Air Force so that I can buy my first commercial property using the VA loan and continue from there and buy more, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not.

Even the funding alone is easier since you now have a cash flowing property that can help you fund your seed money faster. 

I think the 10-14% rate is where it will be for the next five or so years personally so plenty of opportunity

I personally do three types of lease options.

I personally leverage, but have a large rainy day fund. 

I have been investing mainly in trust deeds but like you got connected with Dave and just recently ended up investing in his fund, my primary reason was for diversification and because it is passive. 

They generally have the recipe down and just need the deal funded if that makes sense? 

Hard Money finance, with about $5k of my own funds going into some over-budget costs.

We have done it both ways where we fund purchase and they cover rehab but if the individual is less experienced we do not do it that way, we have them put more money into the deal from the start and fund the draws, reason why is we also had a deal where the person said they would do this and never did anything and property sat and loan matured and it was a pain.Just recognize you will still not get 100% financing for the purchase, so you are putting money in up front. 

Plus the average person probably finds Akron more obtainable given funds available.