It's a great place to find incredible deals too.

If you're looking at the property, are you doing this before putting in an offer (seems like that could get incredibly expensive), or making your offer contingent upon inspection?

There are so many aspects that may never dawn on you until you see it or read about it, so study some of the techniques.  

It has been such an incredible learning experience and having someone on my team who knew the ropes before me really made everything click!

I won't even pretend to know other markets outside of Killeen but I know this market incredibly well.  

I think most people, at least in the Seattle area, are pretty familiar with tools like Zillow and Redfin that provide incredibly useful real estate data. 

If you're not already familiar with it, I'd look more into the "house hacking" technique for your area.

Before hearing/researching this angle, I was pretty gung-ho on accomplishing/refining the wholesaling technique in investing before others.If I plan to be trained and sponsored by the Keller Williams firm, should I realistically  give up hopes on developing proficient wholesaling skills?

What an incredible resource Bigger Pockets is.

While I get your perspective about how can someone fail with residential real estate, I think it's incredibly easy to fail.