Start interviewing people.

@Omari Heflin I just interviewed Erik Stark and he has a very cool system to get qualified seller leads for apartments.

Also listen to all the podcasts that featured interviews with wholesalers.

Do I interview them?

I have a basic strategy I would like to run by some of you more experienced REIs:To find the best Real Estate Agents with an investor mindset, talk to many lenders (Mortgage company, private hard money lenders, banks, etc) and ask for their referrals, or whose name they see the most in their paperworkTo find the best Real Estate Lenders, talk to many Real Estate Agents and ask for referrals for REI Lenders.I will be going in to banks and real estate agencies to start interviewing these lenders and RE Agents, and I was wondering, what questions would you ask a real estate lender?

I am in the process of interviewing brokers in Georgia and questions continue to come to me throughout the process. 1. 

Offering your contract at public auction, in my opinion is a great way to gererate interest and to expose the property.As a professional auctioneer - depending on what price you are in for and what you will accept as a net-equity profit - I would suggest a reserve public auction (you'll have more participants if you do an absolute auction).Not all auctioneers are good at marketing real estate - you'll need to interview them - you'll need to know the following:how much advertising money do they want up front to market the property, commission, time frame, how many real estate deals have they done, are they honest, will they do an assignment, are they respected in the community, where will they market your deal, get references, are they authorized to conduct real estate auctions?

I've been interviewing general contractors that seem to be charging entirely too much.

I'll be sure to interview those.

He constantly asked us questions and let us feel like we were making decision but he was really good at motivational interviewing and giving us perspective from the other side of the transaction.