Since you're already in Tampa, staying local for your first few deals can help you stay hands-on and learn faster.

June rolls in and the work was still not where we needed it to be. At

Staging your house well can help you attract more attention from buyers, which ultimately helps it sell faster and maybe for a higher price than an unstaged home (see visual):What Are My Staging Options?

The banks thought I was a dead beat because of my debt to income ratio.  

You're going to have to go learn about that yourself.The faster you get rid of this bozo the better off the whole system will be.

Hopefully that will be at the end of Q1. 

It does serve a purpose if you are not picky and just looking to have a few lenders try and beat each others fee's/APR.Again to those working at that company I am not trying to take away what you offer but it is limited which must be explained.

PS: Hopefully you did not get beat up too bad on the proffers.

There is only a small fraction of transactions in the US go sub 2 Just like those that teach wholesaling there is only so much beat up houses to go around..

Time in the market beats timing the market!