I was deployed to Afghanistan when I bought this property.

I mainly bring up HM in case the situation requires funds to be deployed in full quickly (auction, foreclosure where bank wants all upfront, or motivated seller needing cash and quick close).

I don’t know how fast you save up $30k for example, but let’s say it takes a year, you aren’t deploying all 30k at once, it’s 5k in the first 2 months and you’ll get maybe a 1% in that time, minus any fees.

Aloha,Military Tenants can be excellent, however after over 20 years on this rock with NUMEROUS bases from all branches, there are some considerations: First of course, is the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, which does provide that any Rental Agreement can be broken with 30 plus days notice due to Permanent Change of Station or a Deployment of more than 180 days.

Being able to deploy the money, gain equity, and get most if not all of it back to repeat. 

Good thing I didn’t start a purchase because on my first day of work I got a deployment!  

If you have a lot of capital to deploy and only a minimal amount of time and energy to devote to "managing your investments", then you may put more down to mazimize the cash flow from just a couple properties.  

Like others have said, I think I would focus on learning about a strategy before deploying capital. 

I am also studying to get my RE license when I get back from my deployment in a couple months.

I had a running toilet that hurt me $50/day for three days till I had a chance to deploy someone out there.