Hi Susan;If you are new to flipping I would tread cautiously and maybe look at some other alternatives to buying all cash that way you have more leverage and are not putting all of your eggs in one basket.

Yes, real estate gives you more control over your own financial destiny, but I never tell my clients to put all their eggs in one basket.

Every industry has unethical people, they don't last but trying to put every realtor into that basket is ridiculous.  

As a borrower, I can assure you that you don't want all your eggs in one basket anyway.  

I know that some use the diversity approach to buying properties so that they do not have all their eggs in one basket.

Experience and fruitful conversations like this one with people who've been at this a lot longer will solve all of that in time.Each house I get under contract gets inspected and if the scope of work from the inspection comes back with a price point that's just too high to be profitable for my end-buyer, I move on. 

Seems like there is lower hanging and sweeter fruit out there to pick.

That will likely be lower hanging fruit, while still involved, than trying to convince a lender to give you capital for some pledged loans while you are still fairly inexperienced.  

People can't fault brokers/agents for working the low hanging fruit first.

I joined about a year ago and my life went to heck in a hand basket.