As someone with a military background, I’ve always approached investing like a mission—know your strengths, assess the terrain, and execute strategically.For me, starting with SFHs felt like the “crawl” phase before running into multifamily.

Pensacola has a lot of potential, and I’ve seen investors do really well in the area with both long-term and short-term rentals.Since you’re just getting started, here are a few tips that might help:Know Your Market: Pensacola’s mix of military families, college students, and tourists means there’s a steady demand for rentals.

There was an onboarding phase, which was mostly about uploading our financial docs and answering questions.

Shared living quarter rental, Military or Civil service rental.  

I heard a podcast the other day with a host saying something along the lines of "there's 3 phases of investing: starting, scaling, and harvesting."

Because the first few months may be great, but after the honeymoon phase, they might morph into messy, noisy goblins.

Killeen is a military area, so that monthly rent would almost be guaranteed.

They are a dual military couple so will use their other VA loan for their next house.They are willing to let us assume their current loan.

Different phases of the journey I guess :)By starting with self-management, I definitely learned to appreciate what the PM was doing for me.

(Available time, money, income, family situation, credit availability, time horizon, real estate market location and phase, medical situation, etc etc.)