If you're going to do fix and flips, whether for the retail market (owner occupants) or investors (rentals), fix it and sell it ASAP.OTOH, if you want to hold rentals, plan on holding them forever.If you rent it for three years, you will just have to redo some of your rehab in order to sell it, especially to a owner occupant.

I'm great at sales (I've started a company - was profitable, in big box retailers and sold it off), I'm now self-employed (yuck - but I do have some control), and I do well.

Half of them straight wholesales and the other half are pre-hab or retail ready rehab.I even found a mentee locally that i am teaching to wholesale.

I plan on unloading a portion to the 'amateurs' for retail.

We still try to get most of our finishes through a big box retailer, and are evaluating which provides the best value in each market.

The types of homes which I am currently looking at are affordable (retail at or below 300K) single-family homes in Long Island with approximately 2,000 - 3,000 SF.If anyone has completed any similar renovations in the New York area I would LOVE to hear from you.

Single family home, retail, small apartments, large apartments, offices??

I have helped a friend market an online retail business and spent every spare second of free time doing marketing to help it get off the ground.

You'll also find that brokers for example specialize due to the vast knowledge required to do all kinds of commercial, such as hospitality, retail strip centers, multi-family, office, etc.

I sell everything for what the market can bear, whether wholesale or retail.