The majority of advisors recommend that you hold property for either 12, 18 or 24 months in order to prove your intent to hold for investment purposes. 

First, it took over a month to activate/set up the cigarette smoke detection.

Many policies have zero problem with 3-6 month vacancies.

Does it take months to go through the town municipality?

I am military, and from what I’ve read there is an exclusion of capital gains taxes out to 15 yrs vs the normal 5 for military members.However, I only lived at the property for 18 months, not the 2 years required. 

You should have at least 20% for the down payment and 6 months of reserves. 

NOPE, recommendation is to wait 3 - 6 months  afterwards to let it completely settle. 

My questions is, let's say something bad happen on the sellers life say divorce, accident, bankruptcy anything like that and while I keep posting my monthly payments to the seller the payments from the seller to the lender stop.Do I have any recourse at that point if the lender decides to foreclose the property due to seller's default?

How do you guys maintain your credit when you’re buying so many properties every month?

So I suspect this is actually closer to over $1000 a month negative.