I bought my first property with deployment money and it's been cashflowing like crazy for 14 years.

Little background, I am active duty military and almost finished with a deployment.

@Mike Wood  10% is very simple in the performing note game... and other investment vehicles with probably a lot less risk as well.My main point to take devils advocate here is for others who read this and wonder how do I attract capital when I have none but I want to get in on the equity side.. and that is to always give the money the lions share until you have a stellar rep..I mean I still do this to this day... and that is why I am NEVER without more capital coming at me than I can deploy..

Now once I find a better opportunity (cap rate>>financing rate) I would take out the equity and deploy it more productively.But I agree with the concept, which postulates you should earn at least 10% on your equity, which in my case I am not. 

The gold is actually fully redeemable (so you could actually redeem it and see it :) , and the fee is .05% to purchase the gold and storage is free in a Personal account,All im saying is, for a long term mechanism to preserve value while waiting to deploy cash (like a down payment) its a useful vehicle.

So whether it's your money or someone else's, you want to deploy it to its maximum potential.

I am leaving on a deployment with the military on 7 March.

JVing allows us to take our capital out of the deal and deploy it on another one.

It is a little sad that it took this long to get emails and a pop-up together when our users win awards, but after 10+ years, we finally deployed that addition a few weeks ago.

These are all different means of deploying your retirement capital, with different constructs, types of service, etc - but with the same basic tax-sheltered foundation.Once you have the plan type identified, speak with a few quality providers of such plans and be sure to get client references.