I've been a small time buy and holder investor for about 10-years and am now looking to supercharge this to build both a legacy for my kids one day, as well as a path to exit my W2 job.

Thank you again. check out the syndications and passive real estate investing section as well.

Very important to ask your team about that. 

I specialize in investors & also self manage my own portfolio of rentals and it does really well, this experience helps me connect you to the absolute best property manager in Memphis since I know how its done.

You can start there, but I know small town politics very well and I'm sure they "omitted" to see the deed restrictions. 

I'm sure it varies depending on the market you are in as well.

Increasing vacancy often means keeping rents low and offering concessions.And while you will sometimes see "merchant builder" developers self manage with their lean team to just get a deal ready to sell, this deal is managed by Willow Bridge, who manages 180,000 units.  

Any advice or information is much appreciated!

VA loans are owner occupied loans so not moving in within 60 days really makes it an investor loan which is not the intent of the VA loan.Now if you move in and 1 month later you get orders, well, that is fine. 

They could go down as well.