Your goals seem to balance future personal use with investment potential.

Loan Programs: Conventional loans (>$7.5M), small balance loans (<$7.5M), lease up / near-stabilization loans, 2ndlien supplemental loans, student housing, seniors housing, MHC, green financing, etc.2.

Originally when they were known as FlipOS, they would split up the interest payments,so I would pay the remaining amount for the month the house was purchased and then the remaining balance on the sale of the home to them.  

On Page 134, he lists the following when analyzing a deal:Sales Price: $132,490.00Sales Expenses: $17,000.00Loan Balance: $55,004.72Total Invested Capital: $35,950.00Profit: $24,535.28I agree with his thought process here when he calculates net profit, but I'm trying to verify the net profit by adding up all the sources of income over the past five years in his example by doing the following:Appreciation over five years=$12,490 (see chart on Page 133).Cash flow ($297.73x12x5)=$17,863.80 over five years.Loan paydown: ($60,000-55,004.72)=$4,995.28 over five years.Sales Expenses are still $17,000.Doing the math, profit= $12,490+$17,863.80+$4,995.28-$17,000=$18,349.08There is a $6,186.20 difference from the net profit he calculates.My question is: Is this $6,186.20 difference due to the forced appreciation gained in the property from the rehab he does in this example?

At Pink Development and Construction, we focus on smart strategies that balance risk and reward.

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 )?

Ok to be like Fox News Fair and Balance this is a 90 home project I own and have been building out the last 3 years.. on top of the 300 homes i have built over the last 10 years.These are the type of firms that have big cataloges of ready plans . 

So believe me, there were days I used to knock my head against the drywall until I managed to find a balance.

Seems like a really balanced and prudent approach.

Here's an example of a home with balanced light, good angles, and a wide-angle lens that shows more of each room: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3057-N-Azure-Ave-Fayettev...It would help to take some free lessons on how to shoot real estate.