You really need an REI friendly lender to run numbers.

Well happy investing my friend

I would recommend the 7 habits of highly effective people and how to win friends and influence people.

@James Carpenter, along the lines of finding a "good few" as mentioned above, in addition to networking personally at the REIA meetings, I would network with investor-friendly title companies.

After that time, any new orders to list Notes for sale will not have sufficient time to be completed and processed before the site becomes unavailable to users at the end of day (5:30 pm PST) on October 27, 2016.

Go find a good friend or family member m if you have little to no experience.

Be stingy, greedy and rude and you will have few friends, few recommendations and lose out on good money.  

I have a friend(also active duty) who's renting his place in destin and he's glad he did!

Differentiating yourself with a friendly call is the difference between a 1% conversion rate and 3-5% conversion rate, which probably equates to thousands or millions more in profits.

I've been doing as much research as I can on locations and strategies, online and talking to real estate agents and friends (one of whom recommended this site which is awesome) I've gone through the BP online education and listened to a few podcasts.