Learn a LOT about investing out of state.Research the market you are going into and figure out the best markets.Make connections in those markets and vet those connections.Save up more money and move up from the war zone and go to a $30,000 to $50,000 minimum market where there is less crime, less vacant lots and vacant houses, where the police will actually respond to a call from a homeowner, where there are jobs for your tenants to work at, where there are schools for your tenants to send their children, where there are real grocery stores for them to buy real food (not gas station or fast food).  

You might have to find a small type catch all brokerage that dabbles in residential and small time commercial.These types of firms do residential and a few land sales and occasionally a small gas station or inherited type small building commercial.For the experts that only do one asset class the small deals like this do not make sense as they typically have a lot of (hair) on the deal meaning many issues to work through.

I have lived in Dayton, Ohio for most of my life except for 6 years in the Air Force where I was stationed in the Netherlands.

It was a tough decision to commit to my local market with my duty station only having a population of 30,000 and being heavily dependent on the military. 99.99% was overpriced.

There's a cute downtown area where railroad tracks and an Amtrak station are situated and I absolutely fell in love with this town four years ago.

There are some properties in that price range in Montclair in the not as nice areas tucked near Bay Street station (Mission/New St) or maybe near the South End.  

When you get new orders to a new duty station you can do it again (But you can only do it twice and there are restrictions).  

The municipal valuation is 1 227 000$, it has very good location (decent neighborhood) but most importantly less than a minute walk from the subway station.

I have been doing tons of research on real estate investing watching a lot of the bigger pockets webinars. I am very interested in making this a career because I have grown tired of being in the navy. I'm currently an...

A bit about myself, I'm currently active duty Navy stationed in San Diego, my wife who was also Navy just recently got out of the service & I think now is the best time to try to purchase our first property we are looking here in San Diego and some areas in Arizona.