They may have played a role in your credit card denial.  

We're doing buy & hold for the cash flow so that I can leave my day job and play monopoly full-time. 

And we are flirting with exactly that, we see it playing out in actions.

It's a longer term hold play, so not much income to speak of this soon.

It's your agent's job to play nice with others while also keeping your best interest top of mind.

This way the investor has a quality property where all the payment is going to the mortgage so equity builds up fast and they can take the re-advanced funds and WAIT for the right opportunity for extra yield plays. 

If its college students/young professionals @Nathan Gesner gave some solid idea.If there are a lot of tenants with young kids, maybe a safe play areaAll depends who lives there

and how will the $500k exemption play into it? 

Or is it mostly just a play to decrease volatility in booking rates? 

MTR is our play there.Vegas can definitely be a tight market for flipping, with competition driving up prices and squeezing margins.