Other wise what do they have, a reservation booking system for hotels(pretty sure that market is already heavily saturated).

I’d research both heavily, on BP and the net in general, as they each have significant advantages as well as disadvantages. my2c

As-is and once completed the mortgage should be covered with one side rented out and cashflow heavily when fully occupied.

It sounds like you may be confused what wholesaling means.It sounds like to you wholesaling means getting deals from Direct Mail Marketing.Wholesaling means, getting a property under contract at price X and then selling that contract to an other investor at:  X+ fee.There are ore options to getting heavily discounted properties.

I rely heavily on brokers..

The place isn't in that bad of shape moving in so I decided to turn key the property because I'm a student studying Mechanical Engineering which heavily prevents me from being able to deal with the house. 

The place isn't in that bad of shape moving in so I decided to turn key the property because I'm a student studying Mechanical Engineering which heavily prevents me from being able to deal with the house.

Real estate is geographically locked and can easily face economic obsolescence overtime.... and also much more expensive and harder to diversifyI am heavily invested in real estate but the 100 year historical data available for the stock market is a lot more reassuring for its long term stability then any sort of data available for real estate.  

At the time, the neighborhood and nearby location was being heavily remodeled.

It depends heavily on the size and quality of your buyer's list.