Read some books, preferably those written prior to 2015 when YouTube gurus started telling everyone how easy it is to buy 17 houses a year with no money down.Investing is pretty simple if you just follow the process investors were using since the beginning of time.

You’ll find tools to analyze deals, connect with other investors, and get advice on pretty much every aspect of real estate.

If I have a deal with decent seller financing terms, it will be sold pretty quickly to one of my buyers and not to a wholesaler who can't prove they can close and/or they are the end buyer.

I would be cutting it pretty close.

I had a home down there, before the owner decided to sell it, that was a 4 bedroom home in pretty good shape, but only rented for $575 per month.

The best way to approach these connections is google research, connect with people on Facebook groups and other forums, know people, have an airbnb listing, or hire an MTR manager that already has the connections...is pretty much all you can do.Would love to connect more with you, and plug you into our military network to help you out!

If you prefer to be hands-off with full-service management, then I'd plan on paying around 20% commission as that's pretty common.

Its an old house that would need a renovation, so I was thinking about how I would add rooms to it and realized I'm pretty clueless about it. 

I'll be dead by the time the lease ends, so I just need to be able to depreciate it and leverage it and I think it should be pretty close to owning. 

Interest rates are pretty universal across country, you are in a high demand, high cost area.