We are not in the business for 3% with a tremendous amount of personal effort. 

Right now I am on my third duplex from househacking and it's allowed me to have some options to buy non-owner occupied places and reduced my expenses tremendously. 

It will take years, but if you build that knowledge base, you will have an edge that most don't which will help you TREMENDOUSLY when first starting out.  

The current property management company makes my life tremendously easy.

We've maintained a 90% monthly booking rate...Being so close to Camp Lejeune has helped tremendously!

The area has changed and improved tremendously.

I have considered pulling all the equity out, refinancing the whole amount, about 64,000, giving me somewhere around 25,000 equity, and putting that towards my other ideas, but in the state of Texas you are not allowed to have Ag Exemptions when you cash out a refi, meaning I would have to cancel my ag exemptions on my acreage, which costs me thousands of dollars and raises my property taxes tremendously.

As others have pointed out, the VA loan have some tremendous benefits as well as some drawbacks, as all loan products do.

I sold my first flip a few months ago and having a contractor in the LLC helped tremendously- he is a long time friend and does great work.

Tremendous information, @Chris Mason!