I couldn’t look a young officer or enlisted soldier in the face and tell them waiting 20 years for a retirement check makes sense anymore.

I'm looking to build my team of Realtors, Property Managers, and Contractors in the following cities: Indianapolis, Kansas City, Columbus. I'm planning on investing in apartment buildings (5+ units) up to 500k. Any re...

The military has provided me with a lot of leadership experience to include operations officer of over 1000 soldiers and I'm currently a company commander of 250.

You do have to deal with turnover and potential short notice deployments, but the more senior military folks you get in places like MacDill tend to pay their bills and communicate with their landlords (vs 18-25yo Soldiers that predominate other bases)... and many military end up retiring from MacDill and staying in Tampa.  

They need a foot-soldier to tweak them block by block.What you need are recent solds data.

Abesentee and home owners with 50%-100% Equity.Once I reach x amount, I plan on buying rental properties around the base and using my "in"of being in army to help new soldiers who pcs here.

They would call make sure I was a good soldier that had no huge financial issues and if everything was okay I got the place.

Kerry, I am an active duty soldier investing since 2003.

A general rule of thumb you can use is buying the house around 60% of ARV, but again this is ONLY to make sure that the seller is even in the same ballpark as you before you waste your time seeing what the property actually needs.A couple options for you, since it sounds like you either don't want to see the homes yourself or are forward thinking (how to scale your wholesale business) then a couple alternatives might make sense for you:Bring on a partner that knows how to estimate rehab costsBring on a foot soldier that can go into the house and take pictures of EVERYTHING (more is better)Get a list of contractors that are willing to estimate rehab projects for you (most likely you will have to pay them, or possibly waive the fee if the flipper you sell to uses the contractor for the deal)Congrats on getting the phone to ring!  

Go with a soldier area and the best management co around, not the best looking P&L.