I currently have approximately 50,000 to 100,000 that I hope to deploy and would greatly appreciate any tips, advice or encouragement that you guys would have.

You can rebuild capital to deploy again after 6 months to 1 year to buy more properties.

The asset can be discharged during or after the BK plan is deployed.

But the rate of return you're earning on that money applied to extra principal is the interest rate of your loan (which is very low if you got the loan recently) so you'd usually be better off deploying that capital somewhere else where your return will be greater.

So, if I were to stick to a market I know fairly well, it would be El Paso, TX (since I am stationed there, just currently deployed till September-ish) and the surrounding area's.

@BillGulley, just for reference, getting one standardized certification test created, tested, statistical analysis then published and deployed by a national testing service costs around $750k and 3 - 5 years.

The lender will have a say in all matters related to the deployment of their capital from origination forward.

You have to do more homework on title issues and estimate loan balances which takes more time and I think that turns off investors.That being said, in my market there are some players in the HOA lien market that know what they're doing and/or have cash that they have to deploy.

Moving in the miltiary has provided me a slow and safe way for me to acquire properties ( in between properties I saved my money and deployments definitely helped).

You could house hack your way to a rather large portfolio if you buy, live in then rent when you are deployed in another area.