He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army and continues to work in the same field.

One day you might have more mailbox money then your salary.. and that is the day you can retire.

My goal is to own enough that the cash flow allows us to retire, when he is done with the military.Pros-*Can use primary residents to become rentals so less money down*Get to explore tons of different towns to evaluate investment possibilities*Can use the VA loan for multiple properties as long as you don't exceed the maximum VA allowance*Understand Tenant needs and cater to them*Maximize Long Term Rental by renting to fellow military*Can save management fees by handling it yourself through the connections you made while you live in the town.Con-*Military can be a demanding schedule.

Then the plan would be to pay all the properties off in the following 10 years so my wife and I can retire at that point from our teaching careers and have our income more than replaced.

To have it paid off in 16 years so we can retire when my husband is done with military

I'm also careful not to get "work at home" people, or retired people, or people without a job/college who are home 24/7.

I took an early retirement 18 months ago from a corporate job.

It is a retirement plan, at least part of it, and a light has been shed showing, (see below) that this is not enough to retire on, and still have the same standard of living that we enjoy now, albeit a modest one.To prepare for the sale of the house, it was going to take a long time to accomplish working full time.

If you structure the ownership of a property within a retirement plan correctly, your plan could actually hire your business for services.

I want to acquire at least to commercial properties in this manner before I retire.