@Randall E Collins sorry to hear about your health issues, but you need to go directly to the sellers and not through anyone else. 

@Carolina E.

I am not however, under any impression, that RE investing is easy work.I look forward to e-meeting you and maybe even meeting you at a local meet-up in the near future. 

As I have never seen a self-managing person using a secured server service on e-mail security, encryption etc..

If you accuse personalities, parties or ideologies it's probably getting shut down - i e.

Your mentality goes hand in hand from what I learned in the E-myth book"building a network and a team of professionals to help me (property managers, agents, lenders, mortgage brokers, insurance guys, etc.); and training/teaching them to basically do most of the work for me."

Quote from @Randall E Collins: I have properties for wholesale, cannot locate investors in my area, WHY?? 

Get prepared for the worse case (the dreaded E word).

I'm with @Randall E Collins, I personally have never had a good experience with it, especially when I was first starting out.

for example if I have a property rented for $2000 a month and I charge 1 month rent as a turnover commission and 10% of each monthly rentals as a management fee I would send my owner a 1099 for the full $24,000 and they would just line items the turnover commission and monthly management fee as an expense on their schedule E , correct?