Lots of these individuals didn't have mentors or licensed professionals to help guide them through a transaction process.

Find a mentor to speed up your real estate investing process.

A mentor of mine with 400 units told me I can use a large seller credit to cover most of the down payment on a property I'm looking at.

The bottom-line requirements for wholesalers are:A buyer must disclose to a seller of their intention to wholesale the property;A buyer must disclose they are selling their equitable interest/contract rights (versus selling the property) in all marketing, advertisements and communications with other parties;" Hi Steve, I appreciate that information and will research those laws to see how they affect me and the way I'm doing what my mentor, who has over 30 years of experience in creative real estate, is teaching me. 

It’s also always a good idea to look for mentors in your local market to accelerate the process.

Should I be in a different profession or learning directly from a mentor?

Little about me , I’ve always had big dreams and I’m very ambitious when it comes to real estate . I have been working since I was 15 , I’m now in construction only because I just don’t know exactly what I should be d...

It makes a world of a differenceI'm an agent in CT and i happened to join my mentors team, The amount of stuff that I've learned by just being in the same room as these guys is crazy.

Ask about their training programs, especially around investment-focused transactions, and find out if they offer mentoring opportunities.

Then after doing that for a while, I raised the fee to $10,000 with the ability to earn back $5000 of the coaching program if they completed all of the homework assignments.Coaching real estate has just been a side gig that I’ve done for the last couple of years and I’ve had anywhere between one and five coaching students at a time, but I’ve helped over a dozen people increase the net worth substantially during the year that I coached themSo here’s the question: One of my mentors recently shared with me that I am selling myself short as a coach and that in addition to charging the upfront fee, I should also write into the coaching agreement that I get an equity steak in the deals that I help my coaching students get during the year that I coach them.