I'm not looking to get rich quick, just to build a real estate portfolio to supplement my military income so I can retire at a young age.

This is my experience from Hurricane Katrina now 13 years ago:Properties in nice neighborhoods were available at hurricane sale prices for cash buyers.Fairly extensive rehab was required but 13 years later those properties are now worth 2 - 3 times purchase + rehab price.Not a get rich quick scheme but for those with cash and patience it was a once in a lifetime (we hope) opportunity.

FEMA is reassinging maps now so people who may not have previously been required to buy flood insurance will now be required to pay their lender who will purchase coverage, even if they never intended to buy it themselves.The trickle down effect is that the pool of potential buyers who can afford or want to pay of for flood insurance may reduce the number of people you can attract when it's time to sell the flip.  

So I took it upon myself to write a whitepaper with the title "How to Attract Investment Opportunities at Meetup Events".It is based entirely on my own opinion and experiences, so I would consider it a big favor if any of you were to provide me with your feedback for improvement. 

Quickly accessible.

But what else do you need to do to make it livable, to make sure your properties rent out fairly quickly (good tenants), and to make sure you're being a great landlord?

I can practically bring in tenants after some quick and basic fixing such as the roof, painting, carpeting and new windows.

., I know you're starting out shallow but this could turn into the deep end of the investing and 1031 pool real quick. 

I am attracted to real estate as a career for many reasons and would like to do it full time after college.

@Brian, and that is a perfectly reasonable position to take, in my situation I'm in NYC, a very tenant friendly state, it's not unknown to be tied up in court for a year trying to evict a bad tenant, it happened to me, took eight months to get him out , situations like that can quickly mess up a positive cash flow, if I had a mortgage on that property I would have been in bad shape.