If you don't need to sell right away you need to consider holding costs and redecorating costs if you rent. and it will take a while to find tenant. 

Hold makes so much more sense to me -- tax benefits, paying down mortgage, long term investments, etc.

We are looking for more flips and to build a portfolio of buy and hold properties that will create cash flow.  

You may end up working for minimum wage.If this were a buy n hold you could leverage the risk over a longer potential profit of cash flow but as a flip your profit is all determined at the sell and the profit will be taxed (versus a buy and hold profit when taken via a refinance is not taxed).Good luck

Flip, buy and hold, rehab and hold, etc. 

I hold the majority of the power when it comes to their housing at least.

I am in Chicago and looking at buy and hold opportunities, and it is a lot rougher than previous years.

What's a good number of units to flip, flip and hold etc?

I have a colleague that's been investing in the Tacoma market for single family homes to buy and hold for the past 10 years.

I'm interested in retail flip potential properties, no buy and holds.