It will cut down on the fake accounts created to promote certain individuals, markets etc.

Ultimately, I wound up doing a 92-unit deal my first time around and realized that part of the reason I was struggling to win deals was simply because I lacked the credibility to be do so. 

Cash flow is constantly promoted and pushed, and often, the personalities lack long-term experience, so they can't talk about the best reasons we should be investing.  

Ultimately it's less of a science than an art, but people rarely truly change so what they did is probably what they'll do.

Ultimately, I had to get the seller and my buyer to sign a direct agreement, with the seller signing an addendum saying he’d pay me a fee for my services.

Hey @Jay Fayz you for sure have the right idea, and if ultimately flipping and wholesaling is what you want to do, then that's a great path. 

He did a book for Bigger Pockets, but by large Bigger Pockets is not so pro Sub2 so not sure why they allowed this other than he is an expert at self promotions, etc..

BP has done such a great job of promoting SFR investing to the masses, that those masses have pushed up real estate prices to where it's now DIFFICULT to cashflow right away.Keep going, but understand you won't get rich in real estate overnight - it's a long-term wealth building strategy.For the short-term, recommend joining a few in-person investor meetings if possible, otherwise online ones.

Is this ultimately a land play? 

Ultimately, I know we have to pay.