Quote from @Michael Fish: Hello,Just stopping by to comment.

In todays environment of back to historically normal interest rates and higher home values - now really is not a great time to buy.

Even on a high interest rate environment  the market has been climbing.

Keeping investor money safe in this environment requires extreme amounts of investigation. 

WikipediaPro-business environment: Companies are reluctant to set up operations in cities with burdensome regulations that hinder profitable operations.

-  we use various sources (Web, Facebook, click funnels, etc. to fill up the PONDS for our investors and wholesales to fish from.).  

You want to be able to get rid of a tenant who is causing problems in the home asap as it can quickly create a hostile environment for the other 4 people living there where now you have all 5 people contemplating wanting to move. 

New to this local market, I wonder whether buy and hold is a good strategies for this market (balanced between cash flow and appreciation for class A or B, I know cash flow is difficulty in general given today's real estate environment )?

Things are different now and we certainly aren't in anywhere near the same situation as 2005, but it's interesting how a similar environment of sustained prosperity makes the exact same kind of "new and innovative strategy" companies pop up.And based on the responses I'm seeing, I'm sure these guys do a bang-up job of selling their strategy and motivating their clients...not a bad thing at all if it leads to a change in their mindset about money and how to build wealth.

Most tech high-quality Tech coders are very good in .......... coding , making code efficient, calling different system call library and make optimization such as comparing performance in multi-threading environment, verifying ASIC logic with different memory size lol , in short most tech folks fits into Chief Architect capacity.But for real estate due diligence, LP need to have Chief Financial Officer capability, ability to read and understand financial proforma, forecasting revenue and understanding macro economic compact with certain interest rate sensitive.