-Buy and hold-Either families or students-Take it slow on rehab-Partner up with my friendLet me try to reason my choices. 

Where operators get into trouble in larger MF is lavish assumptions going in, placing the wrong debt on the deal, and not stress testing the deal/market. 

Then we have 100k to invest into a larger property.

If you're trying to house hack, as long as you're going to be able to carry your property in the event rents fall by 5-10% then you'll be fine.The real worry is for investors who are buying larger multifamily properties and banking on most of their returns coming from a sale at a low exit cap rate.

But I've heard getting larger deals can actually be easier for funding, finding investors, etc.

So any career choice that will allow you to hone those skills is where I would focus.Buy right:NegotiationUnderwritingMarket analysiscommercial broker officeFinance right:Mortgage brokerbanking loan officerRaising capitalCreative financingTitle office (they see how all the deals are structured)Manage right:Property managementImplementing systemssolving problemsYou can never go wrong with sales.

You can actually combine VA lonas with another person as well to get larger properties, but I do not think that will work in this situation considering you will not be in the area.My business partners and I over at Active Duty Passive Income are always trying to help military members invest in RE so please let us know if we can help.

In the future, decide on one (or maybe a few, your choice but don't make it too many) payment options.

He also has a larger 6BR 3BA house in Hopkins which he is renting. 

If we take into account the above assumptions that the deal make sense, in 30 years, when the loan is paid off, the larger deal would have generated a substantially higher amount of profit and net worth to the owner.