These bottom of the barrel types are a dime a dozen, and probably cannot be trusted if they are brokering without a license. 

So NAR puts out a statistic that most Realtors don't make a dime for the first 6 months.

Learn on your own dime first, before you risk someone else's!

Spend the next stage of your life living conservatively and saving every dime for investing and for a reserve fund.

Most importantly, baseball gave a kid who was raised by a working class single-mother the opportunity to graduate from a private university (Loyola Marymount) without a dime of student debt!

Difference is it doesn't cost the sellers a dime since it doesn't get marked pending under those circumstances until the bank approves. 

But it increased the value of my home by about $150-$200k and I didn’t pay a dime out of pocket for any of the construction.

A transaction she wasn't going to get a dime for.  

We’ll make some other assumptions in order to keep this as close to an apples-to-apples comparison, too: You don’t have to invest a dime of your own moneyYou paid the same amount the REITs didVacancy Rate stays static at 15%You hire a property manager at 11%Repairs and maintenance are a very reasonable 7%Capex is about 8% since the homes are reasonably newYour mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed is 4.138% (more on why I picked that number in a bit)No PMI (no particular reason--I just like you)The numbers should look roughly like this:As you can see, you’re going to have to come up with a bit of cash each year, if you want to own them outright in 30 years. 

I wrote this long response with corrections to your errant attestations but erased it and will just state, wholesalers are a dime a dozen, as are the benefits they profess to bring to the table.