Definitely agree with Doug, telling the truth and being transparent is one of the biggest advantages that you can have as a wholesaler.

Use that to your advantage. 

Self employed and not self employed both have advantages and major disadvantages..

Keep up the self education and try to figure out some sort of unfair advantage that you may have.

Our team has been pounding the pulpit for five years about how favorable our tax brackets are and helping clients conduct moves such as IRA to ROTH IRA conversions in order to take advantage of the current tax deal of our lifetime.

@Anthony MillerYour property management experience is a major advantage as you start investing, giving you a head start with tenant screening, lease agreements, and maintenance coordination.

Our tools are a reflection of our ability to rationalize...This, in turn, is where the competitive advantage is.Think about it.

The strategies require a good amount or luck and effort and sometimes finding and taking advantage of a seller with equity.

For example: the multifamily sponsors will usually pay the considerable extra cost required to do a cost segregation analysis and this will increase the investor depreciation in the early years (versus an individual, direct investor who often will skip doing this because of the cost).The advantage of the passive investment is that you don't do any work.

The problem I have with this is that I see no advantage for a successful property owner to participate.