Use this to your advantage by identifying potential investment properties, such as undervalued homes or areas with strong rental demand.Start with a Clear Strategy: Whether you're interested in flipping properties, buy-and-hold, or rental properties, having a clear strategy will help guide your decisions and keep you focused.

.- Be decisive.

After that at some point he had me read Rich Dad, Poor Dad and I knew he was right that it was the way to build wealth, but I didn't think it was something attainable for me. 

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

Instantly I can tell the hottest markets from the normal and cold ones, and separately determine which one's I am priced out of due to crazy high values.I'd suggest a similar value-based approach if you have the data to calculate on to identify a few markets to start looking for deals in, but remember this is still too broad of analysis to make a go/no-go decision on the projects you find.

As a fellow wholesaler I can say that most wholesalers do a very poor job with their business.

Your due diligence time period would have been the right time to inspect further if you wanted to, to gather the info you needed in order to make a buying decision on your end. 

Generic lists + poor skip trace data = horrible results.  

Best of luck to you in your decision making.

I had no visibility into the financial side because my contractor was a poor business man.