Only use it to advertise to find sellers or invest a little in education.But get as much free education and look for sellers using free methods as you can in the beginning, then use funds from your first wholesale deal to ramp it up.

I obviously want to keep as much cash as I can in order to give me the potential to flip another house.

Always happy to help if I can in anyway. 

Purchase prices and real estate taxes tend to be way less, yet you can in pockets, find a great "best of breed" property and produce outstanding rents.  

one guy got 5 years in state prison for that little scheme. its a very dangerous model for those with limit money.. just like the other guy said in FLA you can end up in jail.. well you certainly can in Oregon if your scheme was to be a bad boy or girl .

I've now analyzed dozens of deals and all of them have been big fat negatives.

Dive into @BiggerPockets .com  and learn all you can in between these meetups.

I have taken the argument as far as I can in the past, through the appropriate channels which is through my appraiser peers, and they do not seem either capable, or worse interested, in doing a damn thing about it.

@Ethan GillerThanks Ethan I don't think I can in my situation put those funds in escrow.

Seems like the city managers are living fat and happy with these value increases.