Month to month renters are challenging locally much less from a distance.

If you do have a system what steps did you take to set it up?

@Dylan Tettemer going from any job (active duty or otherwise) into full time real estate is extremely challenging.

I have been noticing the competition stepping up in mainstream investing as of late.

We have used a combination of niches: fix and flip, fix while occupying, quick turn wholesale deals, sold on lease option, carried back second mortgages for cash flow, bought with owner financing, bought from MLS, used direct mail, door knocked pre-foreclosures, went to courthouse steps to see if the auctions were for us.Now we are working to...um...

The first step is to clarify in your own mind not only what you want to do but how. 

Now however comes the next step!

I will definitely take action on these steps.

The biggest is, you will hit scaling challenges quickly.

I have done an eviction, I am going through a pretty deep legal challenge in another instance, and tenants have just left on their own.