Midterm goals would be to house hack a multi family home wherever I get station, just to get my hands dirty.

However, I want to make sure you are also considering using your VA loan to purchase a primary residence or small multi-family at your next duty station (with the intent to turn it into a rental when you PCS again/move out/decide to house hack).

The developer bought that gas station in 2009 for $2.6 million, cleaned it up, got the entitlements, and sold it for $18.5 million in 2015.

My son is currently stationed there.

I was curious if that number was just Waterfront project or included all the other great developments happening near the train station, college, riverfront and elsewhere around town. 

Here's a gem from the Section 8 bible:Go to the police station that patrols the street you want to purchase on.

Hey Anthony, I am also stationed at Ft Campbell.

A few miles south is a highway (and gas stations, a hotel, that kind of thing).

@Vinnie Da silvaI’m intrigued as well I’m in the military stationed in Hawaii right now, but I found a property in the Houston area that has good returns.

My name is Justin and I am currently living/stationed in Honolulu, but will be returning to Chicago in a little over a year and a half.