You need to know the rhythm of your unit and your career path before investing-- if you're going to spend a lot of time away on exercises, in a job where you're expected to put in serious hours, aboard a ship, on hardship duty assignments, or otherwise deployed-- you need to have effective support systems in place faster than other RE investors do.

Even if you agree as owners to not rent doesn't mean that they don't have family members who are careless good balls.

I'll exercise my right to buy and you're out.

Closing Thoughts:I know no one has a crystal ball - but I could genuinely use some insight here. 

Closing Thoughts:I know no one has a crystal ball - but I could genuinely use some insight here.

Again, I am not trying to discourage you, but real estate in Vermont is a whole new ball game and as much as I love BiggerPockets, most of it you need to take with a grain of salt in regards to its application here.

How can I ball park a budget for that?

This is where wealth is generated.Here is an exercise to gain a deeper understanding: go to the BP calculators and plug in $1,000,000 property value (could be 5 properties 200k), 20% down, 1% rental income ($10,000), 5% for all expenses, and 3% for all increases.

Even low ball.

This home has a very large back yard where you can easily build a swimming pool and a 1/4 basket ball court and still have room for more.