I'll hope my tenants can make rent and can use my reserve funds for a month or two if I need to.

Am I being too complex or should I just make rent due based on the start of the lease and have them pay me the full monthly rent on the 14th of every month.  

I realized I didn't want to be stuck in an office for the rest of my life, and was willing to do whatever it took to make real estate work.  

Some recently delivered apartment buildings struggle financially and defaults occurs - the short term office/rental sector gets hit hard- office lease up grinds to a halt as employers space corporate expansions and decision makers get pulled into more important decision making (or unable to make decisions - same goes for A&E folks consulting them)- trade slows down causing industrial to suffer- retail assets struggle with consumers taking a 1-3 month pause from eating and buying goods/services - after 2-3 months of reduced sales, struggling retail companies (especially mom and pops) face dire financial situations and are forced to close I don’t think real estate will be impacted tomorrow, but by 4Q the industry is going to be impacted heavily after the impacts cause loans to default from higher vacancy and lower income  Definitely potential for all of these things to come true.

With that recent experience I've developed a real passion for everything real estate and am considering becoming a licensed realtor which would eventually allow me opportunity to make real estate investments for myself! 

It could be a great money maker!

I am not familiar with markets close to your home but to make real estate work again for me I had to find a market that suited my needs and would support the level of investment that I could afford to make.

Well, it was the ice makers, working properly :)On the other hand if they destroy it maliciously or because they don't care/take care of the property I pursue the damage to the fullest extent of my abilities.

If you don't know the product or service that you are selling very well, it is hard to expect great success.I have only been around bigger Pockets a short while and it has been both exciting and amazing to hear how some have applied what they learn and really make RE work for them.

As the financial and paperwork parts of the program are the same for the landlord in both programs, the VA support is clearly the difference maker in the program.