Step 1: Get a job earning X amount of moneyStep 2: Get a second PT job earning Y amount of moneyStep 3: Get a third PT job earning Z amount of moneyStep 4: Wake up earlier daily, grind as many hours as you can, go to bed, repeat...Step 5: Figure out how to live off W (less then you earn)Step 6: Open a savings account and put your savings into it (X+Y+Z)-W= S (Savings)Step 7: Listen to positive people who are motivating. 

It can be from guru X or guru Y or guru Z or a mentor.Guru X -preaches tell seller you are the buyer, do your own comps, finagle your fee on topGuru Y- preaches go flip war zones, break into properties to check them out, pay title under the table to clear any issues and add your fee on topGuru Z- preaches learn every single solitary strategy out there to be the middle man and add your fee on topMentor- a wholesaler is a real estate marketing machine who knows their market and can provide value to all involved for a modest fee.

@Jeremy Z.

Full control, fully independent.I do the entire job from A to Z, manage, repairs, screen etc.

@Jason O'Day thanks so much for your advice, just bought a single fam in upstate NY , and I am considering doing STR at least until the spring when it is a better time of flipping, i am looking for an STR managing company to do it A-Z, and i stumbled into awning  I will be cautious now.

Congrats on your investment @Nicholas Z. ! 

Eviction should be a Plan-Z, measure of last resort, when all else has failed.

You don't do X,Y,Z, you get paid.

@Sally O Leary I would hate for this post to somehow become a “blame the victim for not doing X, Y, or Z.”

Just finished: Blue Ocean Strategy, Mindset, Jay-Z, The way of the Superior Man and Ted TalksCurrently reading: Super Attractor by Gabrielle BernsteinNext up: Can't Hurt Me, Failing Up, The Like Switch and The Power of Self-Compassion