On the other hand, I’m hesitant to simply pay down more of a property, as we don’t need the immediate cash flow.Fortunately, both my wife’s job and mine are recession-proof, which allows us to be a bit more aggressive with our investments.I’d really appreciate advice from investors who have experience with frequent moves or military service.

Does anyone have experience buying properties for cheap from land banks, renovating them, and renting them out/selling them?

I didn't end up doing the course but I had a very different selling experience from Wendy.

Make sure that that person has a lot of experience, and make sure that there is at least 20% - 25% equity over and above the amount that you have lent and in your agreement it states that they can have no other liens or loans on top of yours.

In my experience apt. conversions from single family are more prone to noise transmission. 

I used to cold call, skip trace, send mailers, and don't get me wrong you will get success from it like James above, however as you gain experience you will realize you need deals faster, easier, cheaper, and with more "meat on the bones" and in order to have that you need constant deals flowing through your eco system and that's hard to do with mailers, cold calls, VA's and skip tracing etc.

He used to troll these waters for suckers very hard until I found out that his claimed experience and transaction history was fake.

My son is working on his first SubTo real estate deal in Crawfordville, Florida, and I'm hoping to find someone in this community who can offer him some guidance and support.He's eager to learn and navigate this process successfully, but could really benefit from the expertise of someone with experience in SubTo transactions.

Our strategy is to buy out of shape properties and rehab them back into shape, so a GC with experience in doing extensive renovations at once would be preferred.

And I suppose the likelihood of us getting more STRs in the area is directly tied to how good/bad our experience with this one is!