Given your mobility for duty posts you can really ramp up your real estate portfolio while serving.Every time they got stationed somewhere they would purchase a property to live in using their VA and house hack.

Because EVERYONE wants to sell their house fast.People who list on the MLS want to sell their house fast, people that want to sell their house FSBO, want to sell their house fast.

You do realize how you got the house right?

I actually purchased a SF house with a two story detached garage in a nice area of brockton.

Or find a deal first then market it to buyers, then offer on the house and create an agreement with the seller & buyer?

Just a different takeNow this is not to sayPS - those houses that were priced way too high and languish?

You're using a company to manage tenant phone calls/inquiries and then send in vendors for repairs.

I actually recommend house hacking as a first step if possible. 

It's what you paid, minus the value of the land, plus what you spent on long term repairs (roof, furnace, etc.

An example would be a $100k house that rents for $2k/mo.