Good day All, I am an active duty service member in Hamptons road VA area I currently have a house under a VA loan that i brought 2 years ago and still reside in this home.

I have been interested and studying real estate for about 2 years now and decided now is the time to get in the mix and start actively looking for deals.

We have hired a realtor for the listing however I am not sure how much marketing he is doing since there is no activity on the listing. 

The life estate could also be seen as an artificial limitation to your investment activity. 

Although prior to that time, most of the responsibility for finding and vetting the investment property will fall more on myself and the other lesser money partner, but I am not sure if that alone is enough to make up for the money disparity, given that once we have the property most of the day to day activities will be dealt with by a property manager.

If a big expense comes into play, I have two credit cards that are $30k limit each with only 4% Annual interest rate (active duty military).

You can pay by the hour or I have actually created a schedule of rates before where they are paid a flat fee for certain activities.  

I'd say, start with determining as to whether  you'd like to be active or passive investor.

There are a lot of active members in the DFW area that are willing to help.

Depending on lease some allow for quck repossession for drugs and other illegal activities