It gave the advantage of locking down a tenant so you didn't have the worry about having to regularly re-rent the property should the tenant give notice.

Well, I'll always promote BP first, since there are SO many resources here for free. 

My pre-approval was for regular FHA .

We live across the country so can’t do regular checks on our contractor.

I've been able to move up and be promoted in that time and am currently making about $100k per year.

Pentagon is a secure building, so I don't have easy access to cell phone or regular email.What I do is schedule time at work to do real estate. 

If it's just regular maintenance stuff, I would pay for it.

However, I need to report that I have not done a very good job of having the meetups as regular as I should (between normal work, rehabbing my BRRRR's, but all excuses in the end). 

You can save:- Save from work for your next downpayment- Create value at work and get a promotion / bonus / commissions- Create a side gig(s) (here is a great article)- Let the value of house #1 grow and harvest / leverage it- Flip another home to create capital- BRRRR any property to create value- Find a capital partner or lender whom you can provide value toThere are so many ways... 

We do not allow self-promotion, and posts looking for real estate agents generate a lot of self-promotion from the agents on the site.But, we're not going to leave you high and dry!