You may be surprised and an absentee owner of a vacant property may be willing to get rid of their property to you for below market value.Keep researching how much rehabs will cost so you can be equipped to quickly analyze properties that come your way.  

In this economy I would recommend Fix and Flip Quick Flip and the main difference of those two is making any repairs/rehab. 

Get out there, knock on doors, and find someone in need of selling their home quick and for dirt cheap.

Deals definitely come around - but when they do you have to be quick to jump on it.

The fees are reasonable no worse than other get rich quick seminars. 

@Jeremy HarrisDodd frank and safe act laws have changed the rent to own strategy in the kast few years in such a way that it isn’t even a good option these days atleast if you do it legally .

Contacting their chain of command will get that taken care of real quick as they can actually face punishment within the military under the UCMJ for that as well.

You should just be aware that the extra $500 each month can get eaten up pretty quickly with expenses especially on a 4-plex.

When i published it someone mentioned to me i need to use the % method to quickly analyze a deal, that i am wasting my time imputing all the details in my fancy software....So i am a little lost on what and how this works if someone could explain it to me. 

They have monthly meetings and will enable you to become proficient very quickly-them and Bigger Pockets is all you need.