Build up a good, trusting relationship when you talk with them so that they understand that although you'll be making money off of the deal you're still looking out for their best interests and finding solutions.

Take your time, build up your inventory of supplies, buy deals.

Just inked a 12 unit last week that is a 10 Cap from day one.

Goal is to build up our equity so we can invest into multi-family units and possibly commercial.  

Over time I hope to build up a base of income from these types of properties and use the income for my retirement savings, which will hopefully allow me to retire early.  

Build up some equity, refi, and buy another.

Since Wholesaling really requires you to build up a list of cash buyers, that seems, to me, a bunch of work for a very small piece of the available profit on a deal.Why not search for cash lenders or cash partners instead and maintain a larger piece of the pie?

Not necessarily recommending that but it worked for me at that time.With limited funds flipping or wholesaling  can help you build up some cash to invest with.

First thought was that it's cheaper to dig down than build up, but maybe not?

One strategy would be to build up the equity with those and use the cashflow to pay off your other debts.