Our goal is to continue to find quality homes at a discount to fix up and owner- finance to buyers. 

I love my job in the Air Force and plan to continue serving my country, but I would like to own my own real estate investment business with a construction/home improvement branch.

@Homero RamirezIf you are already approved for an FHA loan, one of the easiest options would probably be to find a duplex and house hack while you continue your real estate investment education.

3)  Do you wait a year to renovate the property (considering question #1)4)  If you do wait a year and you use hard money to purchase the house, do you take out a traditional rehab loan at the end of year one or continue the hard money loan till the end of rehab (16-18 months total)?

My question is, would owner financing be an option for me over the next three years where I can continue to live in the house and pay down the ultimate purchase price and refinance at the end of my tour so I could keep the house long term as a buy and hold type rental where the numbers work out for me.

For the last four years we had a stable economy, unemplyment keeps getting lower, continued low interest rates (anything below 8% is low) and a social trend towards renting (although millenials have started buying as of late).

There is a lot of revitalization going strong in areas, while the city continues to expand outward!

And continue one a year or so till I can convince honey , he could make double what he makes in a year with a flip...

I didn’t take the time to go to any mortgage companies after my wife was told in a real estate continued education class that the mortgage company didn’t do anything lower that $50,000.

I see many investors saying they are buying properties with no cash-flow or even a negative cash-flow because they predict the market will continue to grow and they'll eventually gain a cash-flow and build equity.