Also you contact the big companies directly to asses their local market needs.Expanding, contracting, entering a new market, leaving one, etc.

My goal is to hopefully transition to real estate investing and leave the corporate world – it’s just those darn benefits that have kept me there this long.

Maybe a window box with some plants (some type of hanging leaves like a fern or ?

Open up the cabinets or the garage, they typically leave the old paint cans in there.

My thinking is, if we leave the principal, we will be taking the equity with us without being taxed on the income property?

With 5 kids, we had to start getting ready to leave the house at 10 for a 12:30pm departure.

I put an end to that with neighbors house-sitting anytime I leave.

So i am in the military and receive roughly 1400/month just for housing and where i stay now they take it all so i don't see that extra money.I was wondering if it would be a good idea to buy a manufactured home for say 40k and pocket the rest of the money left over from the mortgage for a year and a half until i leave the area.My concern is selling / renting out the manufactured home, do they sell or is it usually easy to find tenants ?

What would you be leaving to do real estate??

In theory, you can contract subject to good title and assign that contract, pick up an assignment fee and walk away leaving the closing and title matter to the seller and buyer.