Plus, imagine all the market and REI intelligence that you could collect in 60-80 conversations with local investors.

If no one asked any questions think of how intelligent humanity would be.If you can't answer without being a smart ***, don't answer.

So we have artificially low interest rates, and artificially lax lending requirements thanks to the federal governments  intervention. 

Although I am intelligent, I have no desire to do anything this complex myself.

Lots of people with less intelligence and training than you have been successful at it. 

Interest rates are begging artificially suppressed by monetary policy.

For instance can you rent it out for 6 months and then do a 1031 or is that illegal/toeing the line of being primarily a flip (if you had in some way artificially appreciated property) and therefore not qualifying for the 1031 exchange?

I have been in Real Estate for a while, buying and holding property.Now I want to branch out to wholesaleing.I went to Peter and Dave's The Flipping Formula in Ontario last weekend, and it was VERY clear that that was the path not to take.In looking at Reviews, the most intelligent ones came from BiggerPockets, so here I am.I want to learn, and seek a Mentor to help me with the occasional confusing aspects of this business.  

I have also seen very intelligent Agents go out of business because they let people abuse their time and knowledge.Even though you might not require good reviews or references, I do suggest googling to see if an Agent has BAD reviews, as that would be a red flag to me.  

I have been looking at a few deals recently, and it seems EVERY seller and that means some other Investor's too, seems to come up with the artificially high ARV.