I helping many clients use their VA loan to purchase properties in IB.

Quote from @Michael Wu: Most investors would be fine with a really nice spreadsheet purchased on etsy for under $10.

Good chance you'll be like Michael Chang and make enough to purchase a substantial amount of real estate through the rental arbitrage method! 

Purchase investors in or approaching executed agreement should check in with their mortgage professional for a quick updated quote, refinance rates particularly on expiring Jumbo & Super Jumbo mortgages could soon become more enticing. 

It's a larger home and a big project in Colorado.

I think if you set up a brokerage account with the same bank that your business checking account for the LLC is at, you can simply move the money from the checking account into the brokerage account and then purchase something. like USFR, which pays 5.4% in T bills with zero risk of loss or BKN which pays 5.7% in tax free Municipal bonds if able to tolerate some risk (this gives me a >9% tax effective rate on my cash).

If you are scared in any way about putting money down in any type of investing like purchasing tax liens when your not sure what your doing, you will freeze.

We purchased this house at $550k.

Person purchased a neglected facility using hard money.

I'm looking to invest in self-storage in the smaller cities and towns surrounding the Twin Cities area and am debating between two options: buying land and building a new facility or purchasing an existing one.