If I purchase the property, do I have to wait for each lease to renew or am I allowed to immediately start billing for water usage once the property is under my ownership?  

I recently did a walk through (April 2019) on the property and the second I walked in I noticed smoke in the home, and a cigarette butt in the garage area (that I took a photo of).

If the tenant pays, you can write into the lease that they will pay a certain amount for the energy generated by the panels or charge them for their usage of electricity at a certain rate, any after the 5-10 yr payback period, you will be making money off of every solar generated kWh of electricity. 

https://www.investhypothetical.com/learn/e-book-close-your-first-seller-financed-deal

I’m an E-2 and I pretty sure I have to be E-5 to rate BAH or be married (my mother would kill me if I got married just to get BAH)  As far as the VA loan I just hit the 181 day active duty requirement yesterday, so I can definitely go that route. 

@Maria Paredes my properties, within an LLC, are still on my personal taxes, on a schedule E.

I read through this because it was tagged as Sugar Land / Richmond Texas and they e-mailed me about it. 

I had an investor contact me yesterday and ask what are the most important things to know about a 1031 E?  

We bought our first two houses as light fixers in desirable areas, as defined by the base Housing Office and at an E-5 O-1-2 housing allowance, that we could improve over the years of our tour.  

@Chase Gruening for the purposes of usage, hard money is the exact same thing as private money.