Local meet-ups, FB, BP, LinkedIn are all great places to meet with agents/brokers who are successfully already on the same path you're looking to take.That being said, I spent over 6 months working out of a small brokerage, learned a bit but figured I needed a change.I went to a BP meet-up and got introduced to another agent in my market with very similar goals (learn, earn and invest) and soon afterwards I made the switch.

I suggest listening to the podcast with Charles Roberts on the "boring" path to real estate success.

Sounds like delegating the rehab and management was really successful for you.

There are definitely a lot of good locations that you could be successful house hacking in.

Bigger pockets has all you will nees to become successful in realestate.

I'm hosting and often bring my lawyer's perspective with me to the conversations.We do "Best Deals" and worst deals (we call them "Bad Beats") episodes, and some contract forensics/deal post-mortem episodes as well.The main idea is to learn from both successes and failures.

While the above comments are intended to offer advice for the landlord to recoup their lost rent, or successfully collect rent, there are some significant misconceptions about the role the military can play in this case. 

I look forward to hearing about your future successes.

Congrats to @Joshua Dorkin for his daughter's success and recovery and to @Brandon Turner on his hosting!

I sent a few people there and they all had success.