Using your VA loan benefit is another great way to get started in real estate investing.I’m active duty Air Force with four properties.

Salt air not so great for machinery.  

I've refined and updated my buy box, currently SF detached houses built since year 2000, with 3 bedrooms, 2+ baths, central air, and 2 car garages, in areas with good schools, low crime and economic growth. 

Its appearance in an office chatroom gave it an added air of legitimacy.

Some folks just don't like the pressure of running a ST business. 

Also, air conditioning removes moisture/humidity from the interior airspace, and nearly every home in the Carolinas runs AC during the warm months.Crawlspaces tend to be where the majority of problems occur.

All this pressure on rent's, it's not going anywhere, and as more landlord's relent to the pressure it facilitates greater ease for other landlord's to additionally raise rent rates as well.

I have a rental with ceiling fans in every room, I am afraid if they start making noise, or don't produce enough air for tenants liking I will get complaints and they will ask me to replace them. 

I then added central air.

If we are going there though, I see powers that be pumping things up to maximum pressure before letting it go, because they can, and it's what people do, they get greedy.