I am excited more about real estate investing wherever the Army has me stationed at and how to use my VA loan to buy a great investment(s).I plan on staying Active Duty and do real estate at the same time.

I could put the 3.5% FHA loan route but not sure if I want to deal with FHA requirements.  

It can be very difficult to get a refinance or loan done on the property until that case is dismissed. 

So example you get a loan for $150,000 over 3 stages.You do $50,000 of work the they release the $50,000.Sorry to hear what happened to you. 

And in the end didn't make me money and the loans I had on them actually prevented me from getting additional loans on other better deals.Anyway, here are the specifics:1) purchased 7/1997 @ $80k, $500 down payment, cashflow appx $150/mth as long as there were no major repairs or maintenance items, great % returns but very little $ returns.Sold 5/2016 @$67k, after about $7k rehabwas about $250/mth cash flow at time of saleOh, and it took many months to sell, therefore costing me additional holding costs with no cash flow2)  purchased 9/1998 @ $71k, Similar and same area as #1 - $500 down payment, cashflow appx $150/mth Sold 4/2016 @$72k,after about $9k rehabwas about $250/mth cash flow at time of saleand also took many months to sellFor fun, I just looked up their zillow as of today and 1 recently resold for $85kNow, today, there are a lot more resources to easily research market areas, etc, so I now do more research to find markets with more demand and growth potential. 

The issue is, I fell for his traps and gave him 75% of the payment (around 35k) because he kept saying he needed it to get done soon and I did not want to extend my lease too much because it was very expensive to do so.

So if I setup an LLC, setup a self directed 401k, transfer money from traditional IRA into the 401k, use that to take out a 401k loan of $50k, how does that work with crossing streams and tax conflicts? 

I am aware there are business loans and what not but how can I use it for real estate?

gotta just do the maths, are both of these loans on the same property?

I don't recommend doing that, however if you just got the loan, chances are the interest rate is in the 7s, so they probably aren't going to be trying to call it in anytime soon!