My 2 cents: You're young, you could get a real estate or real estate adjacent 9-5 so you can get paid to to learn more about real estate while learning and building the side hustle outside of business hours.Seems like you live in a major US market so that's a plus, you could get a tenant services coordinator job in commercial real estate making $40-60k (not sure if that's more or less than what you are making now) It's an Entry level role, anyone with a degree and a polished resume and a passion for real estate should have a decent shot at landing a job like this.

In a situation where you were doing an arbitrage (renting it from the owner, then yourself re-renting it to someone else) your costs to renovate/fix it up while you're using it would be able to be capitalized and depreciated by you once your rental was in service (available for rent to others). 

• Should utilities, internet, or services like snow removal/lawn care be included, or not?

Originally posted by @Toby Khan:Hey guys-if you can refer me to lawn service companies-who you use, are they good-that would be great.

if you are going to do things like include utilities, or have an off street parking spot, other amenities etc, there's no reason in my mind you couldn't "charge a premium" for a premium unit/service. 

Make sure it explicitly explains the process for termination if you are unhappy with their services, especially if they violate the terms of your agreement.3.

This is just my opinion and most likely wrong, but the US and its printing of money put themselves in this hole where now their debt is expensive to service which is why rates are high.

Hi @Augusta OwensFirst off thank you for your service! 

If you are trying to come up with a way to finagle the occupancy requirements while using an amazing loan (that you earned based on your service) like a VA, I would say you are starting off on the wrong foot.

@Gary FloringWhy not simply use that $1000/mth to prepay the principal on the mortgage, rather than use a portion of it to service additional interest on an LoC?