If the troops are deployed or if the base shuts down altogether, bad news for rentals...

We have used the 10% tax free savings while deployed, bonus payments, tax free, hostile fire, family separation pay, and an inheritance to buy our houses.

This proved to be low-stress and a good fit for helping keep cash deployed when my time was already being spent elsewhere.Once getting out of the Army, I moved to the Lehigh Valley.

My path to FI and my entry into REI is just starting (I just got back from a deployment).

I joined bigger pockets when I was deployed and got very into learning about real estate during my deployment.

Even deploying 401k loans to buy real estate, which I think is one of the best kept secrets in getting started real estate investing.

Maybe when you’re deployed, she can be your “boots on the ground” while you’re away?

This strategy is known as the variable income method, by deploying your passive income into opportunities that produce consistent and safe returns you can get to your goal quicker.

We did the slow and steady thing, saving up one salary when we were mil to mil, and then we set aside tax-free, hostile fire pay, family separation, etc. and we used the 10% savings account for those deployments where that was offered. 

In a fund model, the syndication group cannot afford to pay preferred returns on cash, the capital must be deployed into deals.