@Paul SandhuI am a full time pharmacist by trade.

And it sounds like you're acting appropriately in response to the incident.What does your lease say about the consequences for breaking the lease?

Obviously you’ll be trading some cash-flow for the low-down potential of the VA loan, but it puts you one step closer to your goal and after you’re out of the house your wife may view tapping the equity a little differently.

I currently pay rent at 415 a month and utilities so essentially I would be trading in my rent to save money for my house expenses and then still paying utilities.

The liability exposure is materially higher and it's not the trade or business we're in. 

Wayfair's Professional/Trade status will save you around 5% off list price on most items. 

@Charles H.If your activities rise to the level of a 'trade or business', a general non-specific search in a new geographic area would be start up expenses under IRC Sec 195.Once you've identified a specific property, expenses are capitalized and added to the property's basis if acquired.Expensing the costs, even through an active LLC/ "investment LLC" is not correct treatment and will get adjusted should the IRS ever audit you.Encourage you to work with your tax CPA/EA as it's very possible not all of the travel expenses are 100% business related.

I had great work ethic, and im extremely intelligent, but without college, I became a tradesman, had to work my a$$ off to save money, and now I'm 41, still working in that same trade, and I wasnt able to scale nearly as quickly as I would have had I stayed in school, get my accounting degree (my major at the time I left), and got a high paying job.I'm not saying that it cant be done, and I wish you all of the thick in the world, but for every Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, there are a million of me.

Also, from my experience here, thousands of people do what you do with no consequence.

I want a specialist that's an expert, and not a jack of all trades and master of none.