It sounds like you’ve got a great start, and I’m sure you’ll do well in wholesaling.

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We've had pipe dreams for years and we are ready to really start making our dreams a reality.Our savings are minimal, since teaching isn't very lucrative and life is expensive. 

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

I'm looking to get started in wholesaling commercial real estate.

Ideally, I would like to use the buy and hold strategy, with a 50k budget to get started.  

Quote from @Makani Donaldson: Hey everyone, so I started briefly looking into my markets that I would want to get into then met with a lender.

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Many people choose NOT to have this, because the administrator will then vet every investment you make to ensure you do not invalidate your IRA.Invalidating your IRA means that you've done a prohibited transaction and the entire account is then deemed as distributed to you.If you don't want checkbook control, then I recommend a plan administrator such as Equity Trust - www.trustetc.comIf you are sure that you're aware of all the rules around prohibited transactions and disqualified people (who you can and can't do business with), then a plan administrator like Sense Financial would be a good place to start talking.  

Good for you starting at 19.