I'm a Marine Corps veteran and currently serving a Government Contract overseas.

Just have not closed yet do to government slow down with land split approval for the property. 

I'm kinda lost here but i wanna do good in real estate can anyone point me to the rite direction in investing. i also heard that theres a couple programs that the government helps first time home buyers to buy there first homes with no money down if you have money saved tho??

It seems quite possible if not a certainty that federal budget cuts in the near term could drastically reduce social welfare programs.  

Exceedingly smart move on their part, for those foolhardy enough to have spoken poorly of him now sit in a very precarious position where their own existence is at stake. 3) Regardless of what anyone thinks we (the US) still wield more power around the globe than nearly all of the other countries in the world combined, and you would be the fool of fools to ignore that and would do so at your own imminent peril.4) I'm not a Trump supporter and I have reservations about how he will govern, but simply parroting lines that come straight from the Democratic Party's Political Hit Manual doesn't serve any purpose but to perpetuate such tripe.

I get real estate goes up in value, etc. but man, sometimes I look at the money I spend in transaction costs buying and selling, contractors for repairs, tenant maintenance, excise taxes, other taxes, taxes ON the taxes that I'm the governments sucker propping up the economy.Take my primary residence for instance.

Your market may be different; in mine sellers do not want to wait 2 or 4 extra weeks for some government assistance program to come through. 

Obviously this would be cheaper for the government because as you mention, once the down payment is made, they only have to make monthly payments of $450 rather than $750. 

State governments in particular love to catch these things.

I don't do that one with subs tho, but then again it is a government contract that i mostly deal with.