You want to be above 740, otherwise you get worse interest rates.I'm guessing you'll use your VA loan, but still save up as much money as you humanly can!

Cards are meaningless without the human factor.  

@Lake Lutes - Matt Blackburn is a great human and incredibly hard working agent!

Thanks for being an awesome group of humans and I look forward to hear from you and potentially teaming up in the future!

Think about it this way sometime your dealer gives you a loaner car when repairs take a long time but they don't have to. 

Such beautiful golden advice your a beautiful human!!

If you are doing buy and hold and flips, you want separate entities so the buy and holds are not held by a "dealer".

I have about 15 years involvment with low-moderate income housing in my area, board of directors of our Habitat For Humanity affiliate and started non-profit housing organizations for different needs.

Human nature has not changed in the past 20, 25 years, in Missouri, like many states, we didn't have LLCs in the mid 90s, before that investors held properties individually in their names and simply got insurance.

When you purchase a property you basically need to say to yourself is this intended to be for investment purposes (capital asset) where you wear an investor hat, or is it going to be sold off soon thereafter (inventory or ordinary) where you are considered a dealer.