If you're sticking to all-cash, passive investments, you’re right that flippers and small developers often look for cash investors to fund deals without traditional financing.

This benefits you now and in the future.Key is to develop a checklist and keep adding to it.  

Increase supply (or at least encourage development), and the prices will eventually come down (as we've seen in other large cities like Austin where the demand boom was followed by a supply boom - and now both sale prices and rents have gone down). 

Looking for some advice/guidance on whether or not to pull the trigger on a prospective duplex.

The majority of my properties are in a very established neighborhood/area that would wage an all out war for a developer looking to build property that would compete with me.  

With Tenant Turner, we can set specific requirements that prospective tenants need to meet before they’re approved to request a showing—such as rent-to-income ratio, pet policies, and other key criteria.

In a previous life, I developed midstream energy assets. 

My suggestion would be to look at turn-key rental property options in a developing area with low entry costs.

My wife became a realtor in March & I recently jumped on as the business development manager of a long-term property management company.

But keep on thinking and evaluating, as there are niches out there where someone can develop a profitable business over time.Good luck