Middle of last year, I lent money to fund a flip and close on a development deal.

This property wasn't in horrible shape nor is it in good shape, somewhere in the middle. 

Or hell personally I’ll a D area that’s near a city core vs a C area in the middle of no where. 

I'm somewhere in the middle of my restaurant career as a chef.

I pick and choose my deals.1) Find a Great domain name2) Head over to Investor Carrot and get the middle package3) Go through their SEO training which serves as a great little starter on SEO.4) Make your website credible first and foremost.5) When you have a decent credibility score, work in all you learn on SEO6) While you constantly improve your website, start learning about PPC/DMM7) Send out your first campaigns.8) You get your first paycheck9) Dump 90% of said paycheck into your business, by increasing your marketing budget10) Repeat process while ALWAYS working on SEO11) Withing 3 to 4 months (if you get to be as good as SEO as I am) you WILL rank #112) Leads magically start pouring in faster than you can open them in your inbox13) (Optional) Quit paying a cent on Marketing, and enjoy actually investing!

Seems like the definition of buy n hold RE regardless of if relying on cash flow or appreciation.Cash flow, in addition to having the actual cash flow reduced such as Las Vegas and Detroit (as two of the worst examples) in the Great Recession (GR), there are other ways to loose money including the loss due to not keeping up with inflation (most of the cheap Midwest areas), natural disasters (could be anywhere but lately it has been South exposed coastal via hurricanes and tropical storms (Texas, Loisianana, Mississippi, Alabama), Ca via fires (Paradise, San Diego twice, Ventura area), and tornadoes (middle of the country), and large beyond planned cap expense items (could happen just about anywhere but good due diligence and conservative cap ex estimates can reduce the risk).We had RE duplex (STR) in Gulf Shores Alabama that we sold after it was hit by 2 hurricanes. 

Hello,In California if you give a 60 day notice to tenant to terminate month to month contract if the tenant leaves two weeks in the middle of the month on the first month do you by law how prorate back the last two weeks of the full month rent or you dont?

True, you will have to pay them their monthly management fee (typically 10% of the monthly rent) but if you're not the type who likes getting phone calls in the middle of the night or having to drop everything you're doing to go fix an issue on the weekend or while attending a family gathering, then it's the route to go.

@David Ivy is a rock star agent and will certainly be able to set you up on a search

. - how buying a property in a great location in the middle of a growing city is akin to buying a business with a sustainable competitive advance (a moat)etc...From a learning perspective I think investors who are strictly one or the other, real estate or stocks, do themselves a bit of a disservice.