I absolutely love reading these kinds of things. Such motivation. My long term strategy is buy and hold. But we are going to start doing flips this year as well.
@Bruce Scannell just the DC metro area- northern VA, DC, southern MD. I still don't feel like I've tapped out the number of houses I can do here. I would only consider looking somewhere else if I felt like there was basically nothing left for me close by. It would be hard to invest somewhere else- I'd need someone I trusted 100% and who knew what they were doing in another market to be able to consider something like that. Most likely I'll just expand more North into MD if/when I need to... moving up towards Baltimore area.