After giving Alan Kirkham 5 months to right this wrong and come up with a fair resolution, we have been left in the dark with no set plans or expectations and no true point of contact, which is why we have decided to share our experience here.

Not buying the product would have been "We don't know exactly what we need to do and we're shooting in the dark trying to find a deal to 'learn' from."

I got up early, did a Sheriff's lockout in L.A. then drove to Norwalk to record several docs, and home by noon.You can always shadow my research work or check out my site if you aren't up to doing this yourself.

Best bet would be to team up with or shadow an experienced investor.

Because this is our first deal I can see how you could only assume I shot a dart in the dark and got "lucky", HOWEVER, Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. 

They never did and went ahead and chose a bright dark color.

So with this brief into being said....1) I have searched far and wide, calling the numbers on bandit signs and opening every craigslist post to do something as simple as shadowing someone in the wholesale business, and have offered myself to help wholesalers and do the work for someone so i can get a head start.

I've tried emailing them but of course they've both gone dark.

If you are going full time into the field, expect to do a lot of shadowing to start if you are not winning your own business (i.e. have a ton of friends that are landlords looking to sell).

That would mean lying one way or another; either lying and getting the hard money lender to write a letter saying the money was a gift (no way (s)he'll do this), or trying to keep the second lender in the dark about the hard money lender altogether.