@Jabari Brooks I am just a tiny fish in this community with a few SFR rentals under my belt.  

WOW, you sure have a lot of apples and oranges in there.You said, unless pricing is regulated, unlike selling fish at the dock, there are pricing determinations in real estate transactions.

I've been told it's a good place however to fish for brokers to send you the good deals.

My knowledge is based on HML , which I have 30 years experience at.But buying existing paper on owner occ mortgages is whole nother kettle of fish.

Statements like this is what give wholesalers a bad reputation.Taking a deal with "little expectation of selling", that you "wouldn't have looked twice at" as an investor, and making a quick buck by offloading it to someone else, is not wholesaling - it's fishing for suckers.Just because you can "walk away" from an overpriced deal under contract, does not make this the right thing to do.

By all means though, please be sure to post back here when you net that big fish, and I look forward to being proven wrong.

Find a trust worthy investor and let him haul this fish into the boat but structure it that he's teaching you how he does it, step by step from start to finish.

Plants, fish tanks, are a big headache. and cause undue moisture issues

For me it was a natural progression of being a high producing real estate broker.. this allowed me to network with developers who hired me to sell their product.. once in the club. you run with them.. then as you gain capital ( and make no mistake this is the most capital intensive business out there you grow into it.. at least that's how I did it.. and I am really just a small fish.. as my deals have all been for myself or just a few select capital partners..

Manhattan Beach,  LAX is 10 minutes away and need I say more about CA beach's If you like more out doors stuff like hunting and fishing  Oregon coast has some well priced close proximity to water properties.. and 1 hour to pdx  Northern Cal Coast is Awesome up by the redwood areas  but kind of remote.