You are missing the most important thing you can buy yourself,an education.You need to meet with professional wholesalers who have been doing this successfully for some time and ask them how they do it.Apprentice yourself to them for free doing their ground pounding work learning the business as a young college student intern would.Learn how to put together a large list of cash buyers and flippers who need the properties you find to sell them.Learn how to carve out a good territory to farm that has several homes sold in the last two years for top dollar prices and sold the fastest (less than 30 days).Learn how to use postal workers,utilities people,and others to spot bad houses that might be able to be bought cheap.Use high school students involved in sports teams or band to seed your farm with cards and fliers door to door at every property and give them a tax deductible donation to their groups.Promise them a bigger wad of cash if you sell a house they bird dog for you(tax deduction!).

Yeah it might be tough at first securing seed capital, finding a property, negotiating a pricing, and fixing it up, but once you have a rental with reliable tenants, can you get to a point where you have a passive income type setting.

Plus, he probably brought weed seeds from other houses on his mower, and there was a big bermuda grass infestation.

You got to start from the seed, to get to the root, to get to the fruit.

Drive parks (plowing), marketing and talking to sellers and managers (planting seeds), then do deals (harvesting).For instance, a mobile home park manager I now work with, initially told me he didn't allow contractors to work in his parks.

I sold one of my rental holdings to provide the seed money for my first flip and I haven't looked back since then.  

if not, at least you put the seed in their minds that you are looking. 

I am a new Raynham, MA based wholesaler/investor that is currently trying to assign as many lucrative contracts as possible throughout MA and RI in an order to build a reputation and also some seed capital for my fledgling investment company Wilson Property Solutions.I'm am very interested in the idea of being able to provide sellers and or potential buyers with the option of private funds/financing for their renovations in an effort to be able to present, secure, and close on more attractive deals.I am new in the game and as such am still networking and building relationships.

It was a small seed that stayed in the back of my head up until I got out in 2008 and began my next career as a Security Contractor in Afghanistan.

Harvesting seeds planted from long ago.