I am looking to start investing in rental property investment.

@Jerry WesthoffSome of the larger hard money lenders may be able to fund this for you, if not a private / smaller hard money lender probably would look at it if the arv made senseI would start with larger companies

5) If any of you reading this were starting out and trying to start a wholesaling business, what would be some steps you would take in completing your first deal?

Where can you make connections quicker, in order to start seeing deals sooner?

This starts early on with preventing what could potentially go wrong by attracting an awesome tenant and looking at what vulnerabilites currently exist in your property.  

It is definitely a big jump start to a promising career. 

Bedroom rentals is a great way to start and one of the easiest. 

But be aware your town could try to regulate septic capacity with the number of allowable bedrooms if they start to regulate AirBnBs.

You may want to try hiring a local handyman that you can email jobs to do and speak with 1-2 times weekly, meet 1-2 times monthly.Most will put on a good show for a few months then either get lazy and cut corners or start raising prices.

Yes he has to buy the spouse out, either through sell, HELOC, or refinance and then the question being with the equity how would you best utilize that for starting into real estate investing?