One tactic you can deploy is to have Open Houses at your own house and ask girls if they like the house and if they would like to live there. 

Didn't help that I was deployed in the middle of project. 

You may not personally benefit such as by drawing income from the rental personally, nor may you inject value into the IRA through the provision of goods or services such as performing work on the property.Basically, you get to be a fund manager and deploy your retirement savings into an asset class you know and understand with these vehicles. 

I'm active duty military with a deployment a couple months away, so this is a factor in my strategy.

It all depends how much capital you can patiently deploy and for how long.

Over all though, it pretty much always makes sense to re-deploy equity as your return on equity goes down every year you own a property. 

Hey everyone I am currently deployed and when I get back I am moving to Vegas in March '20.

If you decide to re-deploy the capital, what is your tolerance for investing out of state?

Active duty army ( SGT ) Deployed currently.

There are many many ways to do REI and he can deploy that cash in any number of ways to generate income - but not all will be passive - so he needs to research what kind of investment is best suited to his goals.