It's all quite overwhelming, so back to scouring this forum for ideas.

-scour your "rough" neighborhood 5 years statistics (you want to see improvement)-scour your local press, local town news (you want to see plans to do something/improvement)-check former owners building history, any permits pulled in the past-take some of the hardcore local landlords to a dinner/coffee to see how they are doing it in the area-make a few visits to the local HA and find out the inners.

The down side for me is I do have a rather demanding full time job, and a family, so I just don't have the time to scour the country side like I would like to.

Hey BP, I have been constantly scouring the podcasts taking notes and educating myself as much as possible.

@Andrew Tripp That's valuable advice to get the principals to personally guarantee the lease, as well as thoroughly scour the seller's/business owner's financials for indications on the health of the business.

But I did sell 3 of my least faves over the past 11 months so am no longer all in.Since I'd rather take a nap than scour 200 RE deals, I'm also getting into small business lending, higher end personal property flipping and old hobbies like cards and coins, mostly for fun.

I would assume wholesaling since it is the "least" expensive.Firstly I suggest you start scouring the forums for information.

We scoured the MLS daily, and visited many a house.

We have been scouring the market for buy and hold and fix and flip since his last project closed about 6 months ago.   

So scour the wholesaling forum, use the forums "search" function, and apply your mind.Andrew.