Joint Venture – You can partner with someone for your first couple of deals to learn the ropes. 12.

My wife and I were recently able to get to a point where we can possibly get a Joint VA home loan when I get off my current deployment in the next few months.

If your brother wants buy it jointly with him. 

In TX at  least, we have a concept of community property (from Spanish law) that means spouses typically own property jointly, even if only one spouse's name is on the title, for most assets acquired after date of marriage.

You might consider doing a joint venture with another investor. 

to my knowledge a Accredited investor is defined as someone who has annual income of $200,000, or $300,000 for joint income, for the last two years with the expectation of earning the same or higher income.

We file jointly, if that matters.

Did you get private funding, partner/joint venture, or hard money lenders?

For example, some lenders require 12 month occupancy instead of 6.What you could do is you and your wife buy a home, occupy it jointly for the required amount of time, and then move into another home with her VA loan. 

I just closed on a note deal where the joint venture investor put up $19k and we expect a pretty good return when we exit the deal.