You’ve taken a great first step in real estate investment.

I plan to obtain my RE license after moving back to the states to assist in my entrepreneurial endeavors.I think my biggest challenge currently is one of location, everything is just a bit harder from abroad.

You can not control every step a tenant takes, however, your bestvstrategy is to protect yourself by plugging in verbiage into your lease agreement that states that tenant is required to use the vent hood when cooking and failure to do so which causes damage such as smell in drywall, discooratiins, etc will result in thetenants security deposit being forefieted.

Having a Line of Credit on an investment property is pretty challenging.  

I am a business owner and keeps looking for financing all the time and I totally understand her challenge.

If I were you the first step I would take is getting in contact with Fort Rucker's housing office to ensure its even possible.

(West Oakland is usually 2 steps forward, 1 to 2 steps back through each economic cycle.)

Welcome to BP, I am glad to see that you are finally taking steps forward and trying to invest.

Finding a lender who can do 7 seperate loans at the same time will be challenging too.  

As investors we like to focus on the cash flow but sometimes we have to take a step back and really assess the uniqueness of a situation.