Flipping is one concept I am toying with but also perhaps an income property that can provide a steady flow of income.

If you were financially free, and just wanted to splurge money on some new hobby or a toy or activity, what is the fun thing you would do? 

“Do don’t have your own home but you have rental properties” —again we work on the road and live in a 45 ft toy hauler that’s worth more than most our friends houses.

So not exactly a flip, but same end result...Full details here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/434246-duplex-under-contract---flipping-karma-and-a-new-toy

Oh, but they did need the mice evicted and the trash hauled away. 

USA keeps you cash flowing and able to buy toys, the real wealth is created in Nz and OZ markets.So it seems you are saying that Nz and OZ markets appreciate but you have no rent increases or perhaps you don't have the 30 year fixed mortgages or property tax caps that keep expenses low. 

A junk yard may advertise top dollar, which may be $200 to haul your heap away.  

I'm in this for the long haul, and over the long haul, appreciation is what makes you win the real estate lottery (as I think I saw on your profile before), and this seems to be what the folks who have been in this game the longest (and who actual won at it) are saying.  

This is a marathon for me as I plan on being in this for the long haul.

Just trying to create a better system or at least have better tenants for the long haul .