@Demetrius Cooper Best advice for such a short time frame, I'd open a checking account that provides a high yield.

In short, I expect expenses to be at least a little less this year, but will need at least 3 years of data to have a better idea if this was a high, low, or typical year for expenses.As far as capex, we had to replace a stove during the year that's include in our expense number here, but I'm not sure if our accountant will capitalize that or not.

Account Closed You may not know an issue has come up until you are at the closing table. 

Agree with Account Closed Are you planning on doing the rehab yourself? 

Account Closed just gave you some great advice!

Limited monthly cash flow, but maintain good rate of principle reduction at 15K and say appreciation of property at 2% a year.Shortly after joining the Army I was interested in using both retirement accounts (couldn't contribute to TSP then) and real estate to prepare for the future. 

They don't have access to the interior of a property, so there is quite a lot that they do not and cannot take in to account.

Account Closed - If you DONT have VA disability you should apply for it.  10% or more waives your VA funding fee forever and makes the VA loan the best, period.  

Fortunately they will usually count retirement accounts towards that total, so TSP or an IRA would probably count (although anything invested won't be counted at face value, they'll do a % of the total to protect against a down market hurting those reserves).

Account Closed, Just be happy it didn't cause any damage to property/people!!!