This would have to be strictly weekends and there would be possible hiatuses if I have any more deployments in the last couple years of my military career.

She got into a rhythm of saving $$$ on deployments then using that as a down payment with no PMI on a VA loan, though had to put 25% down after COE funding was tapped. 

I would still be on the sidelines if no money was my criteria.Is this a strategy you are trying to deploy or do you actually have no money @Kenneth Vargas?  

I am currently a deployed Army Reserve Soldier.

You wouldn't be posting this if it weren't so - Don't even think about deploying capital!

I am noticing that it is difficult to place tenants right now, possibly due to a large deployment to Korea recently.

I asked Craig about DST's and TIC's because I was getting 2 sets of people to passively invest.Those who were exchanging and those who had cash to deploy sitting around.He said the DST's were way more involved and recommended working with them one on one to buy a property directly if possible versus syndicating for 1031.

Of course, property values can also go down, but both rents and interest on a note should not be impacted unless something crazy happens.One challenge with notes is keeping your capital deployed.  

In short its a form of partnership where each one does what they do best.2) Having a lot of money to deploy is a curse and a blessing.

At some point, you will want to pick up the phone and chat with one or more of the advisory firms that offer such plans to learn the in's and out's of how to successfully deploy your retirement capital into real estate.