Once you have your goal figured out it will help you dive what areas make sense for your goals and budget.

Wanted to clarify a few things if that helps. 1.

It not only solved the GMB issue but also helped build relationships in the local market. 

(Doing this one well should help you with the following two.)The second would be to invest in your education on how real estate investing works.

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

Your "clients" will disproportionately be elderly people who you will be taught to "help" - somehow you convincing them not to take market value by listing their home, or selling it subject-to, is "help".- In between finding these "clients" you "help solve a problem for" (in the language of the gurus), you will be angrily dismissed by hundreds or thousands of people, if you are able to get into contact with them. - In the extremely unlikely event that you get a property under contract, your assignment fee, in many locations, and probably on average, will be less than the commission a licensed broker would have received for selling the property. - You will be at risk of breaking the law, as many states are creating laws that effectively ban wholesaling, and while wholesaling gurus claim that this is not the case, they are either lying or deluded.

I want to know more about the area and build a team that can help me purchase and manage properties.   

You want an accountant who can help you strategize and who is responsive when you want to know the consequences of the financial decisions you are making throughout the year.Good luck.

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Quote from @Tiffany Henning: I am in the same situation but ultimately will most likely go with Seth Williams because it is not necessarily a money-making funnel for him but more his heart to help.