New Wholesaler in Jacksonville & St. Johns County, FL

[Louis Porter Jr.]

While I have been in the real estate buy-and-hold investing side for nearly 5 years, I have just started wholesaling deals to other investors. I understand, in theory, what to do and have been reaching out to do deals, but I still seem to slide into my buy-and-hold real estate investing ways. I look at a property and while researching it, I keep thinking of ways that I could add "just this one" to my real estate portfolio. I keep feeling that I am tripping myself up by doing this. I keep thinking I should be looking for people to sell a deal to even though I don't have any deals. This seems to me to be a typical cart before the horse issue. What am I doing wrong and has anyone else fallen into this mindset "trap"?