You may look around BP, search members and businesses for Columbus-area agents and review their profiles to get a sense of their activity and experience. 

While still on active duty, you have BAH which can be put towards a mortgage just as easily as rent. 

The key question is are the investors actively engaged in managing the property? 

Now, this duplex was turn key and had numerous upgrades such as flooring, painting, hot water heaters, roof.

There are approximately two million active real estate licenses in the U.S. 

In Indianapolis and Kansas City where I'm active for instance, this would be a D class neighborhood.

I’ve been in the Marines for 18 years, mix of active duty and reserves.

I've worked in the venture capital and private equity world as well getting a close up view of numerous businesses as the grow. 

Any contributions you make to the LLC in the form of capital contributions should be recorded as owner transfers and transactions should be limited to business expenses and activity only in order to maintain the liability protections.

From what I've read on numerous places, multifamily expenses range from 45-55% of gross income.