what I seem to find is HML> rehab> DFE/ cashout refi I have nothing against flipping for capitol to invest in buy and hold. buy and hold attracted me to real estate.

I have a duplex in Southern CA I currently own/live in, and have purchased one vacation rental that is working out well, but am looking to expand into both the buy and flip and buy and hold markets.

So now I'm trying to determine what is the criteria for buy and hold investors in this area?   

My full time job is what allows me to afford investing, but my end game is buy and hold multi families to provide myself passive income "get out of the rat race."

You'll also need to take into account... other purchase costs, cost of money (seller financing plus rehab costs and financing), holding costs and selling costs.In this example it feels like you could be all in close to $100k (assuming repairs are in the 50-60k range).  

I did some direct mail marketing for several months which resulted in me purchasing a property recently as a buy and hold.

Hi,I will be starting classes to get my real estate license within the next few weeks; I have always had an interest in flipping and eventually, buy and hold.

If you're having money issues, you might want to consider flipping a  few houses, before you  purchase another buy and hold.

Whether they are just tired of holding a property or they are not spending the money to maintaining etc. they have the insider knowledge of deals that are offline.

New investor from Kansas looking to get started any advice on how to get started would like to start small, buy and flip and then work into buy and hold as well.