Either way, get in touch with a lender - you may find that you won't qualify for an FHA loan without at least 1 year of employment history to back the income.In my opinion, you are extremely smart to be thinking this way already, and are thinking in a way that is likely to set you up for life at an early age.

That's a massive raise just by being smart and being able to understand when opportunity is staring you in the face.

Buy smart and finance wisely.

I own 2 already, just want to be smart about buying the next. 

Then a real earning opportunity will be yours as you are your own buyers agent on your next buy.So one year from now ,SPRING 2018, you could have a brokers license, some savings built up, a great tenant that probably wants to renew the lease on your former residence (at a slight increase ) and now you are ready to BUY YOUR NEXT INVESTMENT PROPERTY ( it will be your primary residence for at least a year) BUYING THIS TIME LIKE A ***SMART *** INVESTMENT SAVVY REALTOR-- you will never buy like a first time homeowner, again--but you will buy newer, easy to take care of, highly rentable , APPRECIATING properties that attract good quality tenants.  

If you're smart, you will pay a registered agent company $100-$200 to register the LLC for you, plus $50-$100/year to serve as your registered agent and official address.

Hello Smart BP folks, I am very happy to say that I finally took action.

I live in the north Seattle metro area, so I'm thinking it would probably be smart to try and buy something less expensive in a different market, but I'm just not sure where to start.

Good payers are smart families with good jobs wanting the best for their families.  

I am in R4 zoning which specifically allows for STR's, but if some smart guy who doesn't like me downtown wants me shut down, they could do this to me, and it would eventually work.