Take a commercial agent to lunch and otherwise network in the sector.

I wasn't sure if that was more of a feature that required individuals to work together before the request is sent, or if it's just a leisurely networking tool.

I plan to follow a buy and hold strategy to amass enough passive income through real estate to support myself and my family.I will also use my experience and contacts open in house construction and property management companies to service my properties.I welcome contact from all members in all markets and all sectors for advice encouragement, or anything positive I can use and pass on to the next person I encounter on this journey.

As cap rates continue to compress across commercial real estate sectors and as a residential lending environment become slightly more challenging, institutional investors have capitalized on an opportunity to acquire large portfolios of single-family home rentals in recent years.

Since it seems customary to introduce oneself on the BP forums when they're ready to get to work, I'd like to take this opportunity to do so.I'm a full time software engineer working in the health care sector.

Just take a look at the real estate sector in general, as measured by the iShares US Real Estate Exchange-Traded Fund (IYR) .IYR data by YCharts This is part of the article.

Market Sectors I want to currently focus on are Apartment Complexes and possibly Residential flips.  

It makes sense to choose at your leisure, not in a hurry, rather than waiting and the situation turns to where you have to rent it out.Besides, right now your working with the sellers dollars... you haven't closed.

The low deferred maintenance would indicate a hold.Some of the things indicated by @Henry Clark can also be important - like moving into a different sector or geography where growth is projected to be higher.  

Back before I threw in the towel on trying to beat the market makers in the stock market and switched to straight indexing, I would always pick a couple of companies in an industry or sector that I was interested in to mitigate the business risk of any one company.