South Florida is amazing for appreciation but I know in most areas especially Palm Beach, you will see little to no cash flow.

Cash flow takes good vision and great "hunting" for the deal, but it's certainly possible.  

I would be doing this will a local partner, we would buy the distressed property in cash and get a hard loan for the renovations.

The house hack cash flow should more than pay all the costs and throw off profits.  

Instead of cash-flow you're creating value and saving thousands on taxes if you choice to sell. 

These syndication can provide an 8%+ cash-on-cash return - providing investors monthly cash flow - and a 15-20% IRR over the length of the project.

.- Cash flow: Gross earnings are quite high and more importantly, home values continue to rise year over year.

Thanks for the info in your post, but if someone has just 1-4 properties and they generate cash flow after expenses of only $500 or so/month, that is $24k/year in cash flow.

We used to do a video of the MoveIn Checklist a tenant filled out - with them in the video pointing out all the issues.We did this to have "irrefutable" evidence of any tenant-caused damages, to charge them.It usually worked, but we did have a judge or two disagree with us or not allow us to play our video in court:(Point is, if you have great documentation you can charge the tenant for damages they cause.

Is the cash flow still working out at a level that is appealing to the buy and hold crowd?