I belong to a Mastermind group, we meet twice a year in person for 3 days at a resort away from distractions.We also have a weekly scheduled phone call with one mastermind partner.I would like to start a virtual mastermind group & have regular online video conferences & utilized some of latest cool apps & technology. smiletime.com is a pretty cool free site for this.

It's non stop education that you can't learn from YouTube videos and the mentors are actually there to help you (volunteers, not getting paid).

Complaints from sellers that didn't close, boohoo. they still have the property and they took a chance, these are the same people who if they lost a quarter in a slot machine would insist the casino give it back because the didn't win.

Also I will be purchasing these properties remotely (from my location) relying solely on pictures and videos.

Hi @Benjamin Cowles, you might find this video helpful:

Here is a post with a link to a video of Jeff Watson, a real estate lawyer and investor, discussing wholesaling with a couple Ohio regulators:  Watson and Ohio Regulators on Wholesaling .

If you only have 15 hours per week, you will drive yourself crazy trying to cram 30 hours worth of work into that time slot.

Spend some time every day on BiggerPockets connecting with colleagues, perusing blogs and videos, and engaging with others on the forums: http://www.biggerpockets.com/meet9.

I have read books, watched videos, attended webinars and so forth.

We're almost finished reading the Beginner's Guide to Real Estate, and we are researching and watching as many videos as we can before we actually go and obtain our license so we'll already have prior knowledge to the Real Estate Investing.