The husband is active duty military and currently deployed while the wife occupies the residence.  

The tenants have expressed that they are trying to work on fixing some things with their credit so that they can take out a mortgage and purchase the home.Coming home soon from a deployment I’m not really sure what my next step should be regarding the property.

I'd rather track my money movement with a tool like Stessa and have the properties feeding into the same account to keep my head right.You're thinking well about that downpayment money . . . getting a 1% APY on it and maintaining full liquidity fits the bill when you're looking to deploy that money in a purchase in the near future. 

Very cheap fees and you don't pay anything until you actually deploy the capital.

Most of the deployed 5G spectrum will operate on higher frequencies and that spectrum is horrible at penetrating exterior building walls and low e windows. 

@Phil P.Yes, the IRA can deploy the BRRRR method.  

I'm not afraid to put a big chunk of change down on a house if needed because I will be saving quite a bit in the next few years (woo for deployments!).

I fund a lot of deals and if I was asking these questions, I wouldn't deploy money.

It's come back up but after a couple tenants and a few learning experiences, operations are going well and the capital gains exemption window has expired, so I've left it as a rental even though it's sub-optimal as one (acreage doesn't bring money).Obviously, I've felt the pain and know there's risks.Compromises and optionsI suspect investing activity would require re-deploying of retirement capital as I'm basically barely paying expenses right now on $6k take-home.   

I was returning from a back-to-back military deployment and had been researching budgets and properties while watching the market recession from the outside.