As of right now, I'm serving my last week and a half of a nine month long combat deployment to Afghanistan as an infantryman.

Each year saving 50+ thousand to be deployed in yet another property?

When you come across right investment opportunity you can sell your holdings (this typically takes one business day) and have funds available to deploy into another investment next business day.Keep in mind however the risk of being in the market.

I hope to have some cash left to deploy in 6-12 months in case there are deals that aren't available now. 

They have just deployed a great feature, synchronization with your calendar (VRBO, a few others and ABB coming soon).

Most likely there's a better way to deploy that capital.Bottom line: I see this question A LOT on BP and it almost NEVER makes sense.

Problem with long term deployment becomes keeping that WiFi/Internet connection alive.

Example somebody has 1 million cash but for their first apartment building they only want to deploy 350,000 of it and do not want to go above a 2 million sales price.Do you want to stay active or passive with your investments??

We are preparing to deploy that cash in the next step of our REI goals, multifamily.

The benefits are the optimizations and speed of deployment.