You'll need to find someone in your desired market who eats, sleeps and breathes valuations to get a full idea of your cost in and your expected cash out.A buy and hold strategy is good if you don't need large cash flow and don't mind looking at residual income.

My goal is to network and take on rental properties here within the state of NC and increase my overall residual income.

I am very much interested in investing as well as flipping, holding for residuals, and just showing love to unloved properties.

The residual balance at the end of the first year is the starting value for the next year, so you get 4% of a smaller capital value each year (not 4% of the original value)  If you buy a 100K property, and chose to claim Capital Cost Allowance  (the taxman's term for depreciation), then you have:Year 0:     100,000Year 1:     96,000Year 2:     92,1260Year 3:     88,474Year 4:     84,935....Year 10:    66,484...Year 25:    36,040....Year 35:    23,960....Year 50:    12,989

The whole idea is the cash money is residual, and always reoccuring, while the baseball cards are a complete draw of luck based on market factors, and performance, and are only as valuable in the future as people value them, as well as based on the concept if you can even find a buyer to buy them.The same is with the housing market.What a house is worth today mayis not indicative of what it will be worth 20 years from now.

You have the calls go to a Google voice number so if any residual leads come in while your back at the beach without an ocean you can still do some follow up. 

The only issue is, you could overlay a roof easy enough and not leave residue behind.

I think you need to assess how much money you are bringing in in residual income from your real estate rents and then break it down.

I need help or advice on how to finance deals for apartment complexes with no money out of pocket and how to offer terms that will benefit me and the financer I'm willing to offer as much as possible to get deals done for buy and hold long term residual income or possible joint ventures/partnerships ?

I would like to get into investing and would like to know how I can gain residual income properties.