Even if you were to have an open/shut case against your tenant for the theft - it's still up to you to collect (after having spent countless hours & money on court costs).

What I can pass along from countless hours of research, calling, and meetings is banks are very reluctant to give a business line of credit to you for you to then take that money and invest it in real estate.On every business LOC application you are going to have to put what the nature of your business is, if you put real estate investment it will almost surely be denied.  

Hello I'm having trouble starting wholesaling I have been to countless seminars, read books, and study online articles on wholesaling real estate.

After calling VRBO countless times, their stance was (and remains) that I have to take it up with the owner (who never returns ANY correspondence).

This simply comes with looking at countless deals in a specific area systematically.  

I have spent countless hours trying to research my options online without much luck.

I've read countless personal finance/investment books that all seem to say the same thing (not to imply this information isn't valuable).  

That mentor will save you countless hours of trying to learn everything yourself.

So far I've read several books on Real estate and watched countless videos of Biggerpockets and several others as well.

I have purchased countless houses by recording an address and sending a letter.