I am deploying overseas in the near future and will be roughly making an extra $1,600 - $1,700 a month on top of what I currently make.

Martin  lots of competition with private or HML in CA has really driven down the cost of capital. lenders have to deploy to make money.in my day in Oakland we were 5 and 15 all day long LOL.. but my day was before most of the younger investors on BP were born.When I look at the Bay area and my life there and being in RE there for all intense an purposes all my business life  started at 18... the biggest meltdown was not the GFC Now I am talking the immediate bay area not Solano or San Joaquin or Sac counties... or Vallejo Suisun area. those got crushed in the GFC just as bad as FLA NV AZThe biggest meltdown came in 1989 to 1992... prices on high end homes in SF and the Peninsula fell by 40 to 50%...

Because when you get your next deployment orders, how are you going to handle a property that is out of state?

Sometimes I have been more lenient in the lending terms just because the amount of money that the person wanted to borrow for a particular deal was a good fit for a chunk of money I wanted to fully deploy.

@Annu Zer I guess that depends on the deal and what strategy you're looking to deploy.

There's a huge difference if you have 25k to deploy than if you have a million.Smaller companies won't give you the best price, however it's in their best interest to sell you something that you can make money with - otherwise you'll never buy from them again.

The search continues, so you are not alone in finding the perfect lender, if they exist.I try to put myself in the lenders shoes, and there ultimate goal is to maximize the rate of return on deployed capital. 

My son and I were about to start our investing career when he got home from his third deployment in two and a half years.

Refinancing to cash out would lower cash flow,unless I could deploy it into another deal.

The troops are all deployed at the moment so the town's economy is running at a snails pace.