Also build up relationship with people that offer services complementary to yours.

@Brian ReynoldsWhile you likely will not be able to transfer your TSP assets while you are still active duty, this restriction should disappear once you separate from service.

You’d have to be a real lowlife piece of feces to do that to a service member called to duty .

I know of some portfolio lenders/small local banks in South Carolina that would agree to this as long as the total debt service (1st and 2nd mortgages) is still above a 1.25.

I also offer services for newbie sales professionals and real estate investors.

You’re looking for diversity; people will leave when they lose their jobs if the entire economy in an area is centered around one or two industries.Small businesses and any kind of services will either move away or fail if the biggest employers are not hiring.

I'm glad I did what I did because it has put me in a position of building my business as a Realtor with my service business to pay the bills in the transition and beginning my investing later this year having watched the market for 8+ years and at least kept my net worth positive with my house appreciation, if not as large a number as it could have been.     

I have an LLC but he is independent. 

@Mike Charles if you are looking for someone to just do your taxes and give advice on just that then I suggest Dillon Tax Service.

Again, my wife and I have done some of our own independent research on this to give us broad ideas about cost of materials, and guesstimates as to labor.