@Kevin Corn Thank you for your service.The short answer to both your questions is Yes.Yes, you can use your VA benefit for 1-4 unit residential property.Yes, you can use your left over VA benefit for a new property, once you have meet the 1 yr occupancy, and where you are relocating a new area does to deployment, work and a valid personal reason.

I have no idea what they sell for now but I bet they didnt drop back to 20k;)Would not a mixture of different types, ages and sizes of assets in real estate be another form of diversification?

I would like to start out my portfolio with a decent mixture of lower-valued, high-cash flow properties in Baltimore City (around $35k - $60k) and some slightly higher valued properties with less cash flow in areas that are more likely to appreciate (Baltimore County, around $85k - $150k).

Are they SFH, small MFH, large MFH or a mixture?

Maybe you sell the 30 acre parcel as is to someone who's going to turn it into a corn field (totally serious, farmland is, once again, command premium prices).

The area where the property is located is a mixture of vacation homes and homes occupied by foreign professionals working in the hotel and financial services sectors.

You can design your own, or use the templates they have or a mixture of the two.

There's an old story about a guy who put in a field of corn.

So to answer your question - I'm hoping for a mixture of residential and commercial, starting with residential first.

@Dusty Corning , it's % of rent.