Also, I'd recommend listening to BP and other podcast interviews with successful wholesalers. 

So I pass away the boring hours in a car listening to music, podcasts or audio books which lead me here by chance.I listened to a podcast about a month ago interviewing Tai Lopez, just out of the blue.

If you are in Ohio, I'd probably watch this: National REIA Interview with Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Real Estate

Most videos and interviews I have watched so far give you the big picture and the scope of the work involved, but not the bits and pieces of the work involved. 

I figure the prospective tenant "should" be on their best behavior during initial interactions with me (just like a job interview). 

listening to BP podcast interviews, I hear people say that the lender has the option to demand payment in full to transfer ownership, but they dont do that because they are happy to be getting paid. sounds like a scenario that could go against me if the current owner defaults on his loan, or if the title company wants me to take full control (which I was trying to avoid anyways with this whole tactic).

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Build a list of all the people that can help you, and also start interviewing MENTORS, who have made the mistakes already so that you do not repeat them! 

The KW in my area seems great from everything I have heard and from the interview. 

I would suggest listening to BP podcast but also You Tube Mark Whitten Breakfast Club interview,he breaks it down so simple.