I am currently COO at a large (for our area) landscape company, and am looking to broaden my experience and future options with real estate.I joined BP a couple years ago after talking and meeting with another local member, @Steve Mccarthy. 

When buyers hunt for Wholesalers are they serious buyers or fishing for information to go around the wholesaler without paying for their hard work?

An honorable mention is The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life And Times Of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.

Summer though that I agree with compared to Texas its a delight.I like Charleston SC as a choice.. lots happening real estate wise.. great town great history resturants are really good.. and your right on the ocean so boating fishing etc is nice.. and airport you can get to the major hubs very easy.. economy booming with Boeing Volvo BMW and right to work state. 

Don't get analysis by paralysis, but a lot of people have a kind of investment philosophy like "I want to be the biggest fish in the small pond" or, alternately, "I want to show I'm the meanest, fiercest, strongest jaguar in the jungle, so let me at the competition." 

Broaden relationship with my girlfriend, kids, and aging parents. 

Like when i went on a camping/fishing trip, I was texting bad and forth with a new tenant coaching her on how to use electronic payment software.I decided to go 50/50 traditional/Roth, mostly because I genuinely have NO IDEA if I will take a high paying civilian job in the max tax bracket, live off and pursue real estate full time, or something in between - after leaving the service in a few years.

@Gene Fish"can't save your way to wealth" .

My circle of friends are into fishing and are not an ideal group to have REI conversations with; so I don't.

The more limited one's mind would be, the better their options to achieve wealthy by your definition because each new thought and idea would broaden your world and make it less likely you'll achieve wealth.By your definition, the person with the least imaginative mind would have the best odds of being wealthy.