This is like asking someone how to tie their shoes  its just something that you do and once experienced  you just know when you walk in.

Regarding your question about stronger and faster partners no longer needing you after they have your information, there are protections you have once you have the property under contract with a reasonable due diligence period.  

Once you have enough to safely continue flipping, but can tie some up in a BRRRR type situation, then cherry pick a property you might flip, ad value by doing a reno, and then rent it out instead of flipping that one. 

But don’t tie your shoe laces before you start running. 

That’s the truth man, and they are trying to make rent control stronger with even less recourse.

You're not only up against property costs, but also permits, utility tie in, taxes, materials, a hot labor market, etc.

And you can't find a separate tenant to just rent a garage because electric is tied to the housing tenants.So then you need to have two separate electric services brought to the garage.

In terms of apartment syndications, we are not trying to keep our money tied up long-term so that when we are ready to pursue our next rental, we can have the funds within a reasonable amount of time.

Diversity is usually the best in the STR industry so if one area is lacking you can always tap into the stronger property. 

This latter closed but....There was a second problem, this time with the church property- the church was having problems finding some of the documents that title needed.Since we were doing a 1031 ALL of the proceeds from our sale were tied up until the last property closed or 6 months had passed.