As an agent I know if I don't do what I promised then I don't get paid.   

Under promise, over deliver This was the year I started reaching out to private individuals for money to fund my deals.

I PROMISE your time is better spent driving around collecting rents, filling out deposit slips, and bringing them to the bank. 

Then go to a home goods store and charge about $1000 of staging decorations—pillows, Knick-knacks, fake flowers and plants, throw blankets.

get your funding before you make promises to buy properties unless they are nothing but empty lies.

I would recommend posting a couple "fake listings" online to test the market. 

DO NOT over promise to make repairs for tenants that they do not request.

@Sam Besong Wholesaling as you are practicing it is illegal in Massachusetts unless you have a license to sell real estate.Here is Mass General Laws, Title XVI, Chapter 112, Sec. 87pp, describing the activities that require a license:"''Real estate broker'', hereinafter referred to as broker, any person who for another person and for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, or with the intention or in the expectation or upon the promise of receiving or collecting a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, does any of the following: sells, exchanges, purchases, rents or leases, or negotiates, or offers, attempts or agrees to negotiate the sale, exchange, purchase, rental or leasing of any real estate, or lists or offers, attempts or agrees to list any real estate, or buys or offers to buy, sells or offers to sell or otherwise deals in options on real estate, or advertises or holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting or leasing real estate, or assists or directs in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation or completion of any agreement or transaction which results or is intended to result in the sale, exchange, purchase, leasing or renting of any real estate."

@Kevan Hodges I promised to send you this link, but had a typo in your email.https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/T...

I get plenty of those calls, and the folks always promise me they'll give me the PM contract if I help them.