What I lack in experience, I make up with enthusiasm!!!

I don't know your financial situation but it really doesn't matter - some people jump in get lucky and through hard work become successful others come properly equipped and fall flat on their face, I've seen it...The main problem new investors will have is capital issues... also inexperience with high credit and a few hundred K in the bank is dangerous.

I don't have any connections to potential partners, all of my family and friends are not the wealthiest of people and private money will be hard to find because of my inexperience.

What you really need to be more worried about is inexperience and lack of skill.Normally on an older house I would be really worried about water damage around windows, doors, bathrooms and kitchens.

Education was the great equalizer to my inexperience.

My inexperience shines here, but the fact that this is so different from my interest rate means I am paying a lot of fees, right?

Seems like it would be easy to fall into the trap of never pulling the trigger on a property out of a feeling of inexperience.

That way, you have someone guiding and teaching as you learn and someone to share the risk.Judging by all the inexperience in your question, I recommend you do not do this on your own.

I may lack in experience but I have some capital to invest which is why getting to know as many wholesalers around the area is important to me.  

Whether or not they will...I don't have my license yet (working on that), but given the circumstances of the transaction (not representing an external client, an innocuous mistake based on inexperience with this type of transaction), I'd probably be looking for a new broker if they wanted to charge me more than simple, reasonable expenses.