With the high demand for home inspector professionals, it has become a major hurdle to schedule one in short time spans. 

B&H is a good play here as long as the numbers work including the rehab costs but appreciation is low and slow. 

Playing the stock market with 100% of your capital on the 1-3 year time horizon is too extreme.

To play the devil's advocate, at any time there are hundreds if not thousands or properties for sale in my market.

By playing with allocation and cost segregation, you may significantly increase depreciation in the early years.

Not too many people are willing to play around with an armed guy in uniform out there.

Also playing with the numbers because i don't want to re-finance for the whole 75% of ARV because i want to keep monthly payments lower to try to keep 100 per unit cash flow or 200 total. 

you could play the arbitrage game and borrow at 4 or 5 on your heloc then use those funds to invest with a really good HML in Bend that is doing short term flips probably make 10 to 12 gross and net 5% to 7% on your arbitrage..or you could just use the money for quick turn and burns.. if you have the band width to do those.. 

Insurance plays an important role as the first line of defense against nuisance lawsuits and common events like slip-and-falls.

I agree that there is a constant demand for short term ( Over 30 days ) furnished housing in DC.