Chat them up and have something meaningful to say regarding local real estate.  

That would have been a meaningful and lasting impact.If you want to not be a slimebag, get your license and subject yourself to the rules and regulations that protect consumers.So the answer to your question of why people are against wholesaling is that it screws sellers by stealing their equity and I really hate seeing people get screwed.

Unless you want to kill yourself competing at 8% with the billion-dollar mortgage pools, you should establish lending criteria that includes meaningful competitive advantages.

That's not to say that it is better or worse, but rather that what is to be gained about non-dogmatically approaching real estate investing and finding the path that most closely matches to your big WHY is the surest way to stay out of potentially ruinous financial situations AND on the most direct path to meaningfulness in all things in life. 

Progressing into the conversation  I learned she had the ability  to  filter, extract, and make a list smaller/more targeted?

Cap rate is not a meaningful metric for small multi family.

Investing in meaningful relationships these days is such a lost concept.

So do not refi if you want cash flow, but for me I rather extract when I can and cash flow later.

When evaluating a deal like this, it is difficult to find stabilized comps (property that is renovated and leased) in order to extract a cap rate.

They do not provide meaningful oversight or guidance with respect to tax code compliance.A checkbook IRA LLC is an enhancement on the above structure that is generally more time and cost efficient for investors with a more diverse portfolio.