They also get to keep all of their horses and dont have to stress about uprooting their lives.My benefit:After all of that, I am out of pocket $24k that I was set to deploy for a house hack anyways.

Hi everyone,I'm an Air National Guardsmen with 11 years in, two deployments, a ton of TDY's, currently serving in Montana as a recruiter with a Structures AFSC.

If there is that much equity it might benefit you to wait and pay the hard money interest for 6 months and close on the day after to pull the equity if you need the capital and have a place to deploy it too. 

Value add is an extremly poweful strategy if deployed in the right asset in the right market, and with a solid business plan.

If not, can you deploy that 50k into another property that will make you more money?

and deploy that into another deal and repeat the process. so now in theory you own a property for basically 1k out of pocket (minus closing fee's for the refiance) 

I have saved up a lot of money and could purchase a property in cash but I really don't want to deploy so much capital all at once.

The high utility costs are built into my cashflow budget and I'm still in good shape so for now, I'll deploy my cash on hand in other ways.

I however deploy overseas for 330 days out of the year.

Also for a 6% return, you can get that from private lending and with even less work than a rental and you can deploy the $60,000 fully and not worry about whether or not you can get a loan yourself.