I am fortunate enough to not have any school debt or any other debt for that matter, and have been seeking opportunities to invest my money rather than having it rust in my savings account.After talking with one of my co-workers, who happens to be a real estate agent, I've realized that I definitely want to start investing in rental properties.

I've also co-founded a lead incubation pilot call center (a long story for another day).

I am not sure what area I am looking to invest in yet, I am debating being a landlord from afar, and investing in either the Pittsburgh or Colorado Springs area or just hold off and invest in a unit at my next duty station.

If you're in a cool town (I'm in Denver, you're in Chicago), then people are largely coming for the city, so having an actual bedroom doesn't seem to matter.

If the renters are students, I would recommend having their parents co-sign the lease as well.  

If you have you Louisiana LLC, you figure out what North Carolina's foreign entity registration is and follow it.I did this using a CO LLC buying property in IA.

Aurora is probably a hot market like the rest of Denver metro.  

@Grey HaubertThe four exceptions are: Relocation, Increase in Family Size, Vacating a Jointly-owned house, Non-occupying co-borrower. 

The GCAAR Co tract even adresses this and allows for permission to be granted or not granted to talk to the lender. the MAR contract does not adress the issue.Regardless of whether permission is granted though in the contract, one of the most important jobs of the listing agent is to do his due diligence.

The Denver meetup is this Monday if you're able to make it out.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/373069-denver-meetup-november-7tg-2016