I've been lurking for a while and recently signed up. 

It's hard to picture it turning around, regardless of the number of properties I accumulate.

Finding people who love real estate and then turning them onto real estate classes and helping them the entire way.

Putting out bandit signs.

Mine was a flip turn key property so with these new lower sales and the quicker relocation than I was expecting I would lose 15k just on sale price plus have to take a huge credit hit and lose my VA benefits.

If you can't look at a prospective property within 24 hours turn in your offer because speed does succeed in most sales.Make sure you know of anything in the building code that is unusual and budget for it.  

I was lucky to purchase a house during the down turn and now sitting on equity i plan to open a helc and start investing.

That means that your mortgage should be no more than about a half of what your rent would otherwise be, because the property's other expenses will also be about half that rent cost too.But if you DO pay market price, and there IS a down turn, you know where that leaves you?

They are all in class A communities and have very to zero turn over in the last 5-7 years.

If someone did something to turn a bedroom into not-a-bedroom, and didn't tell the county, the appraiser is supposed to go off of what is physically present at the time of the appraisal.