Costs to acquire and renew your RE license.Your RE sales colleagues and brokers are much more likely to not be savvy investors, and may offer you lots of unsolicited advice against pursing investing as they themselves avoid it (or are too lazy to pursue it).If I was starting now, I would not get a license.

I'm curious to know, at what point do you decide to only bring on a few investors and make them part of the GP to avoid the costs for SEC attorney/docs?

In the past we have only dealt with local tenants who would do anything to avoid legal fees, but I have a feeling this company has a full time legal team on it's books. 

I think it's just a ploy to avoid rent. 

Rose park, West Valley, Kearns, Magna in Salt Lake County are places I would avoid personally.4) Can't speak to much about this however I know there's some local REIA meetups centered around wholesaling going on  so they must be doing alright :)Sorry for my limited knowledge but hopefully that gives you some insight.Good Luck

I'm also wondering if working with a smaller listing agent might be a way to avoid this dual agency problem.

We may avoid the whole thing and go with a portfolio bank. 

The wholesaler then has to come back after some time (weeks or even months) and use some made up excuse why they couldn't close (partner approval, etc).The 100% best way to avoid this, is to be honest and up front.

You have to start somewhere and I don't think you're doomed to start with a complete rehab (although I would avoid foundation issues). 

Spending time talking to people who have been there and done that will save you time, help you avoid mistakes, and hopefully result in new friends.