The " buy and hold " model only works if you are actually in a " buy-massage while holding-mode with your purchase!

I am married to a wonderful man named Pete who is a journeyman Welder by trade while I am a certified Massage therapist.

There are some great opportunities in many markets right now for buy and hold investors, particularly for interim use as individual private offices for ancillary medical arts like counseling, therapy, and massage. 

"The Help" as they massage your stinky toes.And that my friends is how you make it in this business.

I have found that appraisers kind of have no idea how to get good comps for 2-4 unit properties so they just use the 1% rule and massage their adjustments to make the numbers work. 

I went to school for realestate, culinary, nursing, business, horticulture, massage therapist, now going to school for Bachelor in Social Work .

Send me a private massage.

I know, because I completely three lipstick flips in my last year in Greece, working in whatever spare time I had, and my students in my regular job, as an exam coach, thought a lot less of me when they saw calluses grow on my hands.And then the bottom fell out of the Greek economy, and all these unemployed Greek government workers with college degrees who were suddenly fired, well, they had no practical skills to fall back on, so they had to go work in Sweden to swab Swedish crap out of their toilets.

•mother and mother-in-law•father and father-in-law•brothers•sisters•former and current brothers-in-law•former and current sisters-in-law•past and present CPA•past and present attorney•past and present real estate agent•landlord•hair dresser•manicurist•massage therapist•workout trainer•tailor•pool service rep•gardener•doctor•all members of a charity organization you might belong to•church members you know•anyone you have donated money to—ever•co-workers•former co-workers•former employers•current employer•current customers of your current job (be sure to first get approval from your supervisor)•former customers•drinking/social buddies•college friends•high school friendsYou can see that the list can go on and on.

Numbers can be massaged and inflated - you need to know what ingredients went into the recipe to know whether or not you want to eat it.Anyway, it looks like a lot of the finer points have already been made here, just thought I'd throw my two TK cents into the fray.All the best to you all, investors, providers, and skeptics alike!