First, the easier one right now, buy low. 

If there are no new builds, then I would tailor this more toward investors for buy and hold.

@Rosie Geller let me start of by saying I was in IT including live broadcasting of International tennis tournaments, so I have experience in security and security cameras.The problem with using security cameras are:- the resolution at night usually isn’t good enough to make identification unless you buy REALLY good cameras which will cost more then the AC unit you lost.- even if you get an alert, the response time of police isn’t fast enough and your equipment is long gone.

Flipping is going to be tough in any area where people want to live , and very easy in places they dont .

You’ll need to put down 20-25% for each property as you can only get owner occupied financing when buying a new property you plan to move in to within 60 days.

I'm sure people have also tried this in Cleveland and Detroit and Memphis. 

Read a bunch of BiggerPockets book as part of a course I took by Derek Moneyberg called Real Estate Riches.I live in Tokyo and want to invest in the Japanese market despite the many difficulties involved in the market here (depreciation, shrinking population, etc, deflation, etc.)I think the best way for me to get started is to buy a property in Central Tokyo and house hack, I have probably between 50k-100k liquid that I can use, but I'd like to get financing for a bigger property if possible. 

But you can buy up to a 4-unit property with primary financing.

I also tend to over rehab and buy properties above median.

You put 4 people in a house that dont know each other and have to get along .