Looking to connect with investors around the area and start forming relationships so that I can start investing.

For me it was worth it.

I have 3 per property and find that to be the best way for me to take advantage of their high APY and also keep things super organized.

Good advice, Do you have any tips for me to build my database more and build my cliental?

They shop around for me and find me the best deal.

Is the normal practice in wholesaling to analyze a deal -> find a buyer -> then offer the price to the seller and form agreement?

Admittedly, I am not one that typically finds paid mentorship very valuable, but I also respect that my degree is in business with a focus on real estate, and my first job out of college was in real estate (so it is a little hard for me to take my 20 yrs of knowledge and rewind it to try to view mentors from a completely fresh lens).A couple points: I view mentors, especially these expensive ones as a catch-22. 

Hi, what would be the requirements if I wanted to have my father (non-owner) manage a property (SFR) for me in MN?

Make yourself useful to them and start getting reps.I wish I had made the choice and decision early on to commit to only 1 form of lead gen and actually doing it. 

The upper story and deck of the residence come out over the top of the motel forming kind of an exterior corridor or breezeway that pops out on the front of the building.