DM me if you are.1) Great Idea2) Great plan but in this market, do not assume appreciation unless you are forcing it by doing a lot of work in a property. 

My wife and I were both in the Air Force and have recently got out and now are in real estate full time as investors and agents in Destin, FL and Los Angeles, CA.

I'm also active duty Air Force...so I'm working as both now before I retire.

I've been making offers, sellers are even accepting the offers but once I do a rehab assessment I go immediately into the negative (bc contractors quote me more than expected) and I am forced to ask the seller to lower the price and we end up in disagreement.

Absent of the insurance policy.. if the LLC were unable to pay a claim against it, someone can force or commence a foreclosure on the assets of the LLC.

Section 8 usually is good for C grade areas.

This will force me to put down $138,000 instead of around $28,000! 

If there's some city developments/improvements that are going in, or if there's upzoning that I can take advantage of in the future I'll be looking for those things.I also have to have a walk-in equity position where I can force appreciation through rehab.If a deal has those three aspects to it, I'll do more due diligence on it and probably take it down.

This is also just local impact, now add to that the federal impact of interest rates at basically zero, forced shut downs of building materials suppliers, and adding trillions of dollars to the money supply.

Namely for starters, they have professional codes and requirements that force them to pass on investments they would like to buy themselves. 3) I would draw a clearer distinction of sort between "working" and "investing". ;)  Some people just don't have the entrepreneurial spirit or tolerance for risk or etc and thats okay.