Now I own a thriving property management business, run a real estate team helping other investors learn how to grow and scale their portfolios, I have my own modest investment portfolio and have two development projects going at the moment.

If you can learn to understand the fundamentals of a given market you can make informed investment decisions. 

So glad to learn.

OK lets analyze this post.I still fail to see the value in that post... not one single person genuinely interested in learning how to wholesale would find any value in that post.Don't you agree?

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

House HackAttend as many REI meetups as you can to grow your network of investors for referrals, help through challenges you may incur but don't have experience with, and learn from proven guest speakersNetworking app like blinq to compile all of your contacts for REI in one area with phone and emailbegin conversations with local credit unions exploring what type of loan products they offer

One of the constants that I still see from when I first started on BP in early 2016 is the willingness of experienced ( some on this very thread ) folks in different aspects of real estate to try and help newbies and others with advice and perspective.I think it really is a testament to the fact that even though the investing environment has undergone many changes over those years the willingness to continue to help others has not changed.It helped me tremendously when I had to crash course on small MF ownership and I am grateful to all who helped with posts that they didn't even know that I had read and learned from.And yes the search function remains fairly useless and unchanged in that regard since then to the detriment of us all.

You'll learn so much just owning.

I started with them to learn the ropes then moved on to better brokers once I got some experience under my belt. 

I'd also suggest self-managing your first property to maximize cash flow and learn by doing for any future investments.