If you have a high return on equity, then you are more likely to be making high revenue relative to your existing payment, which means you would be more able to cover the higher payment of a cash out refi and would then have cash to deploy. 

We have never did a flip and have only sold a couple investment properties (not flips: one was because assets needed to be deployed elsewhere (bigger and better investment: our best RE investment yet) and the other was an OOS that was too much work for its return).We are considering a purchase that would be our largest sweat equity purchase yet.  

Had this been taken seriously at the outset and if the resources had been available to deploy as soon as the WHO reported the outbreak in China, we might be in a better place than we are now.

To that end, a primary residence does not generate income that one can deploy toward expediting early financial freedom.

I also had 1 move out, and another get deployed and need to break his lease.

Knowing how expensive RE is and how much competition there is to deploy capital, I'm surprised how many on here think they can take the million and easily turn it into more than $10k/mo passively.  

Whatever approach one takes, there always a risk of deploying reserve capital to acquire. 

They are measuring their IRR and EM goals and deploying capital to operators where they can achieve true risk adjusted returns without being hands on and spending their time elsewhere to make money. 

Bought a 2014 Camaro just to deploy and leave the country..

We had been married for almost 6 months and I was looking for months since I had got back from a deployment.