I am deployed returning in July and I will be buying not later than August.

I’m a new investor deploying a strategy of buy and hold and would love to get to know more people out there in SLC/Utah County to learn more about the market and find the right lead for my future portfolio.

There is a low deployment yield and you will have more info about when the troops show up and leave.

You don't want to do anything from afar if you don't have to and if a deployment is always an issue, it might be easier to know that your personal residence is being completed and then ready for sale to do it again.

The only upside to pulling this equity now and not deploying it into another asset of some type for a ROIC (return on invested capital) position that you are happy with, is getting it out of an equity position which could suffer loss in the event iof a market correction.  

I would rather not buy at all than deploy my capital into a marginal or bad deal.   

Investors can take their capital and deploy it how they choose.

I got pretty liquid a while ago and want to deploy resources into Jax but its tough to find anything that meets my numbers.

This is almost certainly incorrect.It is really, really important that you recognize that the estate is a legal entity entirely separate from the eventual heirs.It is the ESTATE that would receive the money, which would then be distributed to the heirs.The "tax burden" and "long-term income stream" arguments that people often deploy when seeking owner financing will very seldom (never say never, but very seldom) apply when dealing with an estate.It is extremely likely that the executor is going to be trying to convert everything to cash, as expeditiously as possible, so that that cash can be distribute to the heirs.I agree with the other posters:  any owner finance offer is very unlikely to be accepted by an estate. 

Take the uncertainty out of it, analyze your projected returns on this property and compare them to other investment opportunities and you will get clarity on how to best deploy your capital (in real estate or any asset class for that matter).