The outfit that trained me years ago (and for which I am an on-site mentor today) teaches both wholesaling using cash and buying/selling "subject to" (and so do I).I think you need to know both. 

Do I start with the big name outfit like Merryl Lynch, Prudential, Paine Weber, or do I start with a no-name local outfit that pays twice as much?

Can anyone recommend a direct mail outfit in San Antonio?

What do people think of this outfit and this route of real estate?

I like the idea of outfitting the units with cameras citing security concerns.

Hello Ada, it sounds like you have a nice home.I currently have an Airbnb property and the home is outfitted with the most basic of essentials.

I also run a small real estate outfit and very new to BP. 

Postage is .16 per piece so you'll need to buy a metric ton of mail pieces to get your per piece price down to 5 cents - even the online outfits are .065 per when you add in shipping....then there's the lack of qualified targets..how many homes are rentals where the occupants aren't qualified to make a selling decision...uninterested...looking for retail sales...etc..etc..The per piece price starts going up (quickly) if you're unwilling to bundle your mailings into groups of 50-100, do the postal paperwork AND deliver to the mailing post office within their delivery window.

@Don Konipol  i myself am not anti paid coaching or educationI think from what we see with some high profile litigation going on now  (Montelongo and Tarik in LA)you may see AG's step into this market and try to regulate it somewhat.I had some conversations with the owners of the back end of a few of these outfits and they are already working with these folks to limit the wild claims of success that tend to suck folks who desperately want to change their life's station for the better.I think you may see extended cooling off periodslimit claims of successthe main issue I have with these folks is how they wip them up and then get them to raise their credit card limits and use said credit card to buy their program only to simply end up in a ton of credit card debt.These programs were all spawned out of MLM .. they are run the same way.. same trigger's at the events.. 

Your association with WorldVentures, probably the biggest scam outfit in the travel industry, does not bode well for your future in real estate.