As far as your loan goes, contact your credit union, visit the bank where you keep your money, and ask friends and coworkers for their recommendations.  

Particularly a Sunday afternoon for me so I could make it down to Milwaukee for a visit with some friends on Friday night and Saturday night and stop to network on the way back north.

Newbie military investors (which I still consider myself to be one) really need to understand what may go wrong in real estate because they are in the military such as PCSing (especially shortly after arriving to a new area) and having strategies to deal with it, deployment/surge deployments (also something that us Navy folk call an Individual augmentee or IA), landlording at a distance or landlording in general, and overseeing rehabbing without being able to visit the job site on a regular basis. 

As for how to get that information ahead of time, things may get much easier when the state court system moves to e-filing... 

Should I go visit their corp office ? 

Carlos Gonzalez go ahead and shoot me a private message and we can get the ball rolling.

First time buyers are typically younger and have decades of life changing events ahead of them like marriage, children, job changes and sometimes, sadly, divorce. 

So I've got a lot of research ahead of me. 

If you invest based on location/schools you are ahead of most people.Try to also get a more concrete idea on the rehab costs if you can (not sure on your financing but this may come out of pocket if you are not doing a rehab loan).

Add in the fact that note investors are tapping into deals six to twelve months ahead of other investors by buying the distressed debt, and you’ll understand why note investors are tapping into great deals.