However, you need to collect the BAH when you get there, so find a small (uncomfortable small and cheap) place for your family to live until it is rentable. 

Many agents list undermarket to spur a bidding war.. many props will have 10 to 20 offers on themI just sold a little dinger Yesterday in Salem oregon  4 offers in 24 hours... and thats a starter house 200k which is about as cheap as a renovated home goes for.I sold one Friday in Sacramento it had 3 offers.. and we were able to remove the FHA lender clause and force them to conventional.. so we did not have the flipping time lines to worry about.so its market driven for sure.

We are six hours from Chicago, driving, or 40 minute flights are pretty cheap, Chicago to Cak. 

Cheap long term financing has value.

Don't get lured into investing far away because property value is cheap.

DO NOT BE AFRAID to outline high costs for rehabbing to current code -- complete new wiring, plumbing, 100% new drywall, ceilings and floors, windows and doors, kitchens and baths --- porches, landscape-- are not cheap.

We bought it cheap and sold it cheap.

It is probably me being cheap, but we pay between $79-119 for this and it includes a location if there is a break.

Can you buy multiple properties with 1 huge loan me and my wife are trying to buy 3 duplexes with 1 loan is that possible?

The plan for El Paso is find a decent single family homes for cheap; fix them up and rent out.