Above all how do you see your employment and income growth over the next 10 years.

However, Atlanta has experienced a steady growth rate. 

The goal is appreciation and equity growth rather than high cash flow.I get I’ll need $60,000 for the down payment.

Given your youth and lack of experience in anything and everything, you should look for a brokerage that can put you on a sales team where you are responsible for certain tasks and you feed off the success of the entire team, usually led by a hot-shot that knows how to sell.

Then use my VA loan to go get a nicer 4 bed for my family to live in.Pros option 1: Only 3.5% down, doesn't tie up another VA loan, if  flip is done right I could refinance into a conventional loan.Cons option 1: Could be tougher to cash flow with only 3.5% down plus the PMI associated, forces family to live through a flip.Option 2: Buy home with VA loan, live in for 4 years, move out and hold as a rental.Pros option 2: Easiest solution, least amount of headaches, family doesn't have to live through a flipCons option 2: Doesn't provide the most amount of potential growth, ties up another VA loan.Option 3: Buy rental with conventional loan, buy personal home with VA loan.Pros option 3: Easier solution, doesn't force family to live through a flip, gets rental and nice family home at same time.Cons option 3: Won't have the money to do major renovation on rental could cost more in long run, ties up a lot of money in rental, slow growth without doing renovations.

Obviously no one knows exactly what will happen, but this demand is likely not going away anytime soon with the overall growth of Utah, and thus, in my opinion, the rents will continue to increase.

@Jackson Babcock thank you for the advice and reaffirming a starting point and game plan on my personal growth.

Get more specific with your analysis than FL at large, The area in your backyard of the Austin Suburbs and SA has quite a bit of opportunity for appreciation and rent growth.

If you're just reinvesting your cash flow at this point anyway, you'll usually grow your equity faster in growth markets than in cash flow markets.

Image via Pinterest.com@Aysia Harris, I would like to give you some advice as a beginner wholesaler.If you start learning the art of presenting real estate to investor-buyers first, you will get away from your primary task.Primary task.