Hooked up electricity lines to the main line.

Stay out of debt (completely out of debt)Get your degree (While on active duty it's free and you don't touch your GI bill) Buy low cost index fundsBuy some high risk stocksSave save save save saveRead every real estate book you can get your hands onPlay it out over 20 years.

If you want to set yourself apart, be courteous and professional and respect their time.Their main concern would be people looking in medicine cabinets for drugs and in dressers for jewelry.

I'm not planning on making my first purchase for about months so I can pay off some of my current debt and lower my debt-to-income ratio. 

With the mortgage insurance added to the debt service, I do wonder how the math works. 

My point is make your main income something you love to do.

.      :-)My real estate is all debt-free.

I would not touch any recourse debt that is less than 7 years.

@William CastiglioneIf you pool both LLC's funds, no debt can be brought to the table.

If you have a RE license/real estate is your full time profession, you pay reg taxes on profits from selling real estate- I buy and hold for at least a year and sell some flips periodically so that is not my main business and I pay a much lower tax rate as mine are capital gains