All of these activities that I speak of take minutes each day, its not overly time consuming and honestly the majority of my time is spent driving to my post office box to collect checks, entering the payments into the system (only the checks, credit payments are automatically entered), and driving deposits to the bank.Not a terrible way to spend a friday each week!

If a firm has to decide between pursuing you or another case, and you have a very time consuming and expensive protection system they have to try to get through, they will most likely take the other case. 

I have about $15K in savings, no consumer debt, and excellent credit.

"borrow"/buy from Consumer #1 and pay 0.4%, then lend/sell that exact same money right back out to Consumer #2 at 4.375%... except in your case you are BOTH consumers, you're selling them money and then buying that exact money right back at a higher price. 

CashApp is good for accepting rent payments, you can sign leases via any electronic signatures software - DotLoop, DocuSign etcThe most time consuming is to meet Tenants to figure out if they are any good.

Know how the permitting and building process works where you plan to start before you do anything else, you may find that it is more time consuming than you expected. 

Then last year I “woke up” and began reading, listening to, and consuming all the information I could.  

Since Raleigh is so hot right now, I'm nervous that most contractors, managers, and agents aren't going to make time for a newbie like me or they'll be so expensive my profit margin will be consumed.

The technology is the "easy" part (not that any of this is easy); creating consumer awareness and confidence is definitely the challenge.

Wholesaling is a time-consuming business to be in the start(building connections, finding properties, getting a buyer's list, etc).