My wife and I are active duty Air Force and we are being reassigned to Eglin AFB in May 2019. 

If you buy right and force equity, you can roll that equity from property to property and leave little to no money in each deal.

There are certainly other autonomous driving and machine / deep learning based companies all over Pittsburgh so I think it will still be a force in the city in the future. 

@Jonathan Liu The incentive to sign a year lease is to fix the monthly rental rate...without a lease you can raise the rent once the peak rental season arrives...which you can do to force her to make a decision.

One of the attractive points of commercial real estate is the ability to force appreciation through rental increases and operational efficiences.  

So scale constraints really forced me to look at something bigger.

I’ve heard that you will have no problem finding buyers if you have truly good deals (not deals you’ve forced by underestimating rehab costs or overestimating ARV).

Either way it was forced payment... 

It is up to me what the contract says, and no one is forcing anyone to sign that contract.

@Ethan SpielvogelAs a general rule, you would want an LLC in the state where the property is located to be able to make any legal action in court (eviction for instance).However as some states have week asset protection statute (the charging order is not the sole remedy), you would then need to have this local LLC owned by another LLC in a strong state like WY.Now because you are located in CA, you are subject to the CA regulation that will force you to pay an expensive local franchise tax on your out of state LLC.