Building a strong financial foundation involves aiming for a credit score of 700+, educating yourself, building relationships with agents, lenders, and property managers, and analyzing properties with positive cash flow.

My ultimate goal is to transition into real estate investing, focusing on rental properties and possibly house hacking as my next step after wholesaling.Given my current position, I’d love to hear your thoughts and advice on where I should start.

This creates a negative initial position.

Are you generally seeing cash flow positive deals from day 1?

Build a real estate network, evaluate potential properties, and use the 50% rule to ensure they cover your mortgage and leave positive cash flow.Good luck!

This would include money normally budgeted for a traditional loan payment + money simply not needed (positive cash-flow).  

I mean even those of us that are brokers if we don't protect our position in writing we will get cut out.. 

You put RTO in it, they destroy the house, and then you're in a worse position 3-4-5 years from now when there is little appreciation and the house is destroyed.

Every positive I brought up he had a negative rebuttal.

If you want appreciation, identify markets with expanding industries, positive growth trends, and bright economic forecasts.