Unless you have truly private INDIVIDUAL investors (friends/family), it will be very hard to finance your first deal right now, but not impossible.

I want to start as early as possible, but I have recently been informed that it would be difficult or impossible to get a load under the age of 21 even if my credit and work history is good.

I want to start as early as possible, but I have recently been informed that it would be difficult or impossible to get a load under the age of 21 even if my credit and work history is good.

Civilian aviation pays peanuts for the first 5 years, FYI (~$20k-$40k/yr), and once pay gets good, it'd keep me away from home just as much as the Navy.On the other hand, my wife is a successful real estate agent of about 4 years and is opening her own brokerage (the Navy would make this near impossible to sustain). 

You're pretty far off from the 1% rule and being highly leveraged, it will be nearly impossible to cash flow.

Not saying it would be impossible, but with distance, or online learning expanding, there may not be a reliable market for student housing. 

Civilian aviation pays peanuts for the first 5 years, FYI (~$20k-$40k/yr), and once pay gets good, it'd keep me away from home just as much as the Navy.On the other hand, my wife is a successful real estate agent and is opening her own brokerage (the Navy would make this near impossible to sustain).

. $750 a room is virtually impossible with the homes set up

View it this way, the logistics of a gov take over on for profit rental housing is impossible in scale to anything ever done, but the sec8 & 45 is an existing system in place nationwide, all that is required is change of policies forcing more % of rental market into sec8 jurisdiction and expanding of the programs and staffing as a whole.

It seems impossible not to trip the breaker, even when just running a fan and the air conditioner it has tripped on us in the middle of the night.