Unfortunately my lack of experience in the market I'm in makes it hard for me to effectively weight the different risks and is throwing a wrench in my plan.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to just randomly throw 10k at one of these loans.

Common Realtor tactic is throw Stuff against the wall and hope something sticks.

Go grab your signs and throw them away.Of, if you're willing to engage in criminal activities to make a buck, look for more profitable opportunities than bandit signs and wholesaling. 

The guy who did my home loan I wanted to throw out of a window.

I work in a small office and my broker is currently unavailable so I figured I’d throw this question out to the people of BP.

You still won’t throw in the towel huh?

He is looking to sell and they're looking to buy, and the numbers they were throwing around were $150k.

After reading your intro, I can say that it is never too late to start in real estate investing.Life will throw you curveballs that go against your long term plans; that is for certain. 

If you search "Salem Five Direct", you will be able to get the 1.85% rate (my login is just on Salem Five).Anything I don't plan on using the near future, I just throw into Index Funds.