In many places, you have to belong to all three.  

Go pay them a visit and drop off a three day notice while you are there.

Our first three flips were all live in flips.

They have done a good job over the last three years.

Kyle, Great questions, I've coached over 1,000 investors through these types of issues, working for three years with Robert Kiyosaki which was like drinking from a fire hose as people faced these kinds of issues. 

I paid $8.99 for a 3 month subscription, and I discovered a very good NY Real Estate Salesperson study guide.

Multi-family properties are the best for buy and hold in Bakersfield because the price per square foot is lower then a comparable single family home (so they are cheaper to purchase) but you end up getting a lot more rental income because instead of collecting $1000/month on an average sized house, you collect three monthly rents of $700/month for an average sized unit in a triplex.  

Eviction, Probate, Quit Claim deeds, 65 older .Your is SoCAL so head over to Property Radar and get a month subscription . 5,000 leads for $40 bucks a month.

I may be biased because it's my adopted home, but Austin is nice.It's rated #1 by Forbes as a boom town:http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/01/14/...Top three cities to find a job:http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-04-...One of the best to start a career (which is different than finding a job:http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2016/02/03/austin...Ranked #1 city for young families:http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-10-...There are a lot more of these articles, these were just the first five that came up when I Googled "best cities to live".

Most of the problems investors run into fall into three buckets: underestimating rehab costs, underestimating rehab time or not properly assessing ARV.