I think it's always deals first- no one will take you seriously as an investor or syndicator if all you do is tell them about your ideas, people want to see action. 

They no longer work for you, so monitoring a collection action is not their responsibility.2.

And it all thus incentivizes the correct future actions of others. 

The single biggest thing that I've probably learned about students so far is that they're not price sensitive, mostly because they're not paying for it.

Before you take any action be sure to think carefully about what your goals are in the short, medium and long term.

At some point, you have to accept that you’ll never know everything before taking action.

Take your time to explore the different strategies, and when you're ready, you’ll have the knowledge to take action confidently.

I've found myself more focused, and have come to the realization that while, the vast world of REI and improvement podcasts is a great way to find out what is possible, it does not work well for me to help drill down and take action, especially when this is an industry that literally everything could work.I'm excited to take this new "era" to BP con and use that as another launching point going into the Q4 and Q1, and ensuring I'm saying NO more than I'm saying yes.  

Yes like Min said, its great to have a plan but I would say the action is much more important - I did a few bad deals and learned so much more than I would have if I was just sitting on the sideline planning things. 

Two things I have seen, one form of Gator lending is indeed loaning money to wholesalers for EMD for a cut of the action.. either interest rate or profit whatever they can all negotiate.