Reason I asked is that you have just a few posts here, still new and you started off with a rather aggressive tone with me, as if you're telling me something I'm unaware of, seems as if the tone carries some agenda.

@Fred HellerPerhaps it's a slower pace in Ohio where this all happened?

That pace is 7.5% below the 4.96 million pace one year earlier.

I understand that I could go at my own pace in contracting houses but is the time commitment with wholesaling too great for a college student?

As a completely biased opinion, I think South Florida will see a little more economic growth or growth at a little better pace than the Tampa market.

First thing to do is "develop a good BS Meter" search my blogs.You'll never meet anyone in the real estate business that does not have an agenda, understand what that agenda is before you take advice. 

For example, if you would have looked at some of the more expensive parts of Las Vegas and Atlanta back in 2006, you would have seen prices appreciating at a similar pace (doubling every few years), but as we saw in 2008-2011, that wasn't a long-term bet I would have wanted to make.Sure, there are differences between Howard County and other places (the schools are some of the best in the country), but this is public information and I would argue that that just means much of the value is already priced in -- no different that a stock where some "secret" about the company has been leaked.That said, it's hard to find houses in Howard County for less than $200K, and even if you can, they aren't going to cash flow very well.

Luckily the Berkeley Property Owner's Association is a very vocal supporter of landlords and has tried scaling back Rent Control, but in the long run many of their efforts are futile since the City Council has their own agenda.

And all my rental profits were going right back into the business to buy more houses.Over the last 2 years, I've bought about 20 houses and seem to have settled into a pace of about 1 a month.

They only had one person handling all the draws in the company and that person was slammed so communication was at a snails pace.