They payed it, but my property manager at the time did not under stand what I wanted in the contract, and I deployed before I was able to see the final draft.

Deployments should be a concern if you are investing around military bases.

I don't know what nationality you are, but if you're American (most BP-ers are), then I would strongly encourage you to consider deploying capital in the US before doing so in Japan.For markets - I think you hit the big ones. 

While overseas, we had tax-free income from frequent deployments, we used the DoD 10% savings to boost our down payments, we used extra duty pays, family sep pay, and COLA to scrape together funds with which to invest. 

This is perfect when you have little resources or don't want to deploy capital.

I wrote a comparison of this event to a water heater leak at another property a few years ago (before our system was deployed) where the supply shutoff valve on a water heater in a closet of a second floor unit leaked and went unnoticed by the tenants until the laminate flooring in the adjacent room started to cup.    

I would rather have it be that than a leak because I can't exactly go over and look at the property because I am currently deployed in Africa haha.  

Do you have any underutilized or idle assets (besides vacancies) that you could deploy?

I have never looked at one because I am not in your fortune situation but i have seen them out there and the added benefit is that  you can deploy more precise amounts.Course you also lose one of the best parts of those types of deals because you will probably have to put all the eggs into one basket.Course, there are problems with the approach of buying into cash flow properties too which is you have to find the right operator and if you never invested before out of state you can easily get hurt real bad putting that much money to work right away esp with larger multis being sold at lower and lower cap rates.  

Personally, I'd take the cash out of the rental and deploy it into additional rental (s).