Problem is mate nobody is willing to make that sacrifice.That's why we have a job lolI moved from Australia to the US in 2012 to follow my real estate dreams.Folks have been born and bread here and still many don't want to do the work and would rather complain and blame me for any issues that occur from a turnkey investment standpoint ehhh 🤷‍♂️

You sound like you are caught up in the Agent count trap that I was caught up in.

A potential trap people may fall into is that they will borrow to source a down payment, therefore ensure you check existing debts and cash flow carefully otherwise you might be in over your head.

Those old drum traps in particular are pretty awesome to get cut out and replaced with pvc. 

I am a local Cleveland agent (born & raised) & work with one of the top PM's here.

For sure there are many charlatans out there - not looking to get trapped by bs setups. 

My wife was born and raised in Malaysia.

Most were born into this and didn’t know any other way.

But since my youngest was born it all changed.

Yes, I still believe a lot of brokers and REAs who are hostile to wholesaling industry are motivated by jealousy and resentment born out of the fact that they had to invest so much time and efforts to get licensed in RE, while wholesaler can get into assigning contracts and earning his average $10K per deal without any entry barriers, overwhelming regulations, caps on commissions and jumping through hoops that they had to in order to serve end buyers and sellers with fiduciary duty to parties they serve in retail market and public.