Just prepare intelligently and ask good questions, like you've been doing. 

The rep on the phone kept trying to focus on the “lower payment amount” and I got agitated because I felt like she was insulting my intelligence.

Was that initial price an artificially low price to drive multiple offers on market?

Hi Jakson,Go visit the people you want to meet (once Covid is over) and ask a lot of questions.Don't go looking for a job, because (most likely) you won't learn much at a job.Be prepared for the "Get out of here kid" responses as well as the ones who will answer your questions.i don't mean have prepared questions (like in school) I mean just wing it, like "What are doing here; and how do you get financing for something like this"Someone who asks intelligent questions is likely to get intelligent responses.W2 for money, not for learning.Also, dress respectful and be respectful to everyone you talk to, and you will be much more likely to be taken seriously.What I mean by dress respectful is a solid colored golf polo shirt and tan pants will get you farther than a hat on backwards and your pants sagging off your behind.

Then master the language of money and become financially intelligent.

You buy something where someone has lived for years and then pull the floor out from under them and tell them they have to move in the middle of a pandemic.And secondly when you turn housing stock into short term rentals you have just created an artificial scarcity in the market for that area.

> $4k/ mo holding costs > Cash for keys - squatter wants $50k > Took us 3 months to take over the property during the height of covid in NY.Step 1: Gain intelligence....we started by doing drive-by's.

So then you can stick to 30y fixed and treat it as free money as some Youtubers say:DHowever, there seems to be like 10 buyers per house, making it very competitive and final sales going for 30-100k above asking price (especially when it seems a trend to artificially lower asking price to get more people into the race).I've only been looking at this since beginning of March and real estate agents told me that this crazy thing is going on for over a year and it is just getting worse, that you had to bid more and more, essentially driving prices up and up. 

My very profession is to be informed and forecast, so best intelligent investing decisions as they relate to real estate specifically, can be made. 

This wholesaler is not thinking long term and does not have enough intelligence to understand what he did.