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

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).  

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.

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 use as my emergency fund or to store cash that I want to deploy quickly.

Great story - our daughter is in the Army and has a similar story of deploying to numerous places: Hawaii, NC, MO, and Italy.

I continually have a HELOC out on my personal residence that gets deployed, returned, etc.  

Hello my name is Steven Torres, I am from New York, Long Island. 22 years old, currently deployed over seas.

Funny thing, I think I signed up for RealtyShares first but I had shiny object syndrome and was really looking to deploy my investment funds in quick fashion.