A credit card and automatic payment is a good idea.

I'm looking for some ideas on questions I should be asking the realtor I might work with to buy my first rental property.

This is not a debate about Dave Ramsey-we are out of debt and have 6 months emergency fund and don’t adhere to his investing advice but I liked this idea when saving to buy real estate. 

I have been researching some data / cities for OOS and have tons of ideas. 

Do you have any idea how much an eviction might cost you?

We market the property at lower price and then discuss a sort of 'cost averaging' for that utility during lease signing.Here's another 'out of the box' idea - depending on your layout and climate - you may consider electric baseboard heat as a different option for heat, coupled with using window units for air....Jim

Any ideas?

Does anyone have any input/is that a bad idea?

I agree with many of those investors that a correction of some sort will happen but I am under the belief that it will not lead to prices decreasing much but rather stagnating for a few years.Though @Alvin Sylvain says he is new to investing, he has the right idea.

Any idea what base you wife will be assigned to?