The on-base alternative is a basic hotel room, and they don't even have sufficient capacity.

The development was originally planned to include 15,000,000 square feet (1,400,000 m2) of retail, office, residential space as well as 11 acres (45,000 m2) of public parks.[3] Its size encouraged the Postal Service to award the neighborhood its own ZIP code: 30363.[4]Atlantic Steel MillAtlantic Station was designed with energy efficiency in mind and many of the buildings are LEED certified.[5] Additionally, the project was developed to help mitigate urban sprawl and reduce air pollution by allowing many more people to live and work within walking distance of most everyday things they need, with many alternative transportation options nearby.

Having your license also makes it so much easier to find, see, and analyze properties since you have access to the MLS for pulling comps and getting showing instructions.You may also find that you actually do like working as a realtor on more "traditional" transactions and helping people (both other investors and retail home buyers) buy and sell homes or manage properties, and it can be a great alternative income stream.

Alternatively, get a fence.

An alternative would be to find some local investors and try to bird-dog wholesale deals for them for a finders fee or offer whatever value you can while you learn.

From traveling and bringing them in through luggage, from purchasing new or used furniture and delivered with a truck that was infested by removing old furniture and delivering new.

Have you thought about some of these other alternatives?

I was in about 200K of debt to run my trucking business 99K was credit cards with about 17%+interest rates and I am happy that I did that)))For me risk is ok if you have backup plan, and one more thing I never work more than 6 month out of the year ))

An alternative could be that you intern for a small company, with the express purpose of gaining development experience, or at least that's how you should communicate it to them.

The only advice I can give you is learn how to be a cable tech yourself, and make friends with the cable techs you see driving around in trucks.