Your best bet if you want to wholesale (I don't know why anyone would) is to find a high volume local wholesaler and work for them for a while before going out on your own.Hello Jonathan,I appreciate your perspective, and I wanted to share more about my situation.

Lots of crime over there, I'd say best bet would be 1 occupied and 1 vacant.

With C or below you probably can't avoid some of it so I'd go with a recency bias, ie anyone who has a long period of time between their last eviction and successful rentals other places will be a safer bet than the guy that just got evicted. 

At various times during the past 25 years he “specialized” in oil and gas drilling, franchise sales, surgical center investments, office centers, start up incubators, vitamins, mobile washing equipment, cemetery syndications, residential mortgage brokerage, commercial mortgage brokerage, insurance as an investment, long term care insurance, and property development in Mexico.  

He is not financially independent, but I bet he's living the life you dream of.Figure out what you really want, then start building a plan to get there.

There are very few sellers of notes right now, so who are you buying and selling too.You are going to be sadly dissappointed and realize after 3-6 months you probably wasted your money.Your best bet is to join some groups on FB or elsewhere and start to learn that way.Let me ask you this question: Have you spoken to any note investor out there to ask them about the environment today to actually get into notes? 

We are negotiating for a mobile home, he listed it at 40k, but when we offered that, he then negotiates for 42k.

Speaking of Islands, do you have any contacts on Dauphin Island below Mobile? 

Out of state may be your best bet, everyone on this thread has suggested great markets.

I'd bet if there were a good field of competition the price would drop