And then EXP offers ownership to every agent in multitudes of ways to earn company stock as well as purchase it at a discounted rate. 

It could be for a multitude of reasons: economy, sponsor, leverage, strategy, mismanagement, etc. 

Once you commit to yourself to turn around this losing scenario you will embrace the multitude of experience available though books and reading.'

Buy and hold -  normally, if you make a bad investment or if you overspend on fixing up the property you can normally just wait in the property will appreciate and/or  over time you will build equity through the paying down of debt service.Flipping -  there are a multitude of things that can go sideways.

There are a multitude of problems with believing this blanket statementIn order for the statement to be true the following assumptions would have to be true1.

You can do this online or in person at the courthouse.I prefer to go to the courthouse for a multitude of reasons.

This can be beneficial to both parties for a multitude of reasons.

I understand @John Thedford's frustration, because (as I think we've covered before) about 99% of wholesalers aren't able to add any value to a deal, and wind up never even doing one for a multitude of reasons.

So don't worry - you have a multitude of great options.  

I have been tinkering with this dilemma for some time now and understand it depends on a multitude of variables.