.- PLUS you get to live in a nice new home while stationed here.I can go on and on.

The population has been growing here year over year over the last decade, it is home to The Ohio State University which has over 50,000 students that live here along with those that visit, and it also holds a diverse range of young professionals and traveling nurses to fill the demand of the multiple business corporations and hospitals stationed here.

Then from there, I would ask for a long due diligence window where I had approval to market to a new tenant.There was a similar deal I was looking at a few months ago but it was a vacant gas station.

The population has been growing here year over year over the last decade, it is home to The Ohio State University which has over 50,000 students that live here along with those that visit, and it also holds a diverse range of young professionals and traveling nurses to fill the demand of the multiple business corporations and hospitals stationed here.

working with realtors is just 1 way to find properties. there are tons of others, signs and direct mail being my favorites. also business cards.i've left business cards at gas stations and got calls.a mentor, a good mentor, keeps you focused and on the right track as well as they can shorten your learning curve. it doesn't take much money to get started in real estate just alot of nerve.if you don't have much capital then i wouldn't recommend rental properties, i'd say wholesaling is the way to go. wholesaling is finding a property at 50-60% ARV and selling that deal to an experienced investor for a fee. do a few of those and you will get a good education on good and bad deals. then you'll have some capital to keep moving forward and finance your real estate education, and then you can move on to the next set of deals.

If you are just holding smaller residential properties as opposed to a shopping mall or even a gas station (which usually has huge liabilities), property insurance with an umbrella policy is generally good enough. 

These are less likely to have the same lease restrictions and likely to have owners that are more open to any dollar they can pull in.Talk directly to convenience stores/gas stations.  

I’m in the military currently stationed in Korea and I want to buy in Washington State.

I will do some research on those suburbs in Dallas in Houston as well as research College Station.

Matthew, I'm a former Marine myself... stationed at Pendleton.