If you want to discuss more specifics, feel free to ping me. 

In my experience, the support is amazing. 

Wholesaling will only marginally teach you or provide you with experience useful for real estate investment 8.

Lots of great insight from the folks above.In my experience as an investor and multifamily lender in the twin cities, I would simply say there is no "right" answer.

Feel free to reach out if it might be helpful to learn more about those.

Maybe Intuit's newest version is improved, but speaking to a tech in India or Phillipines when I had a question and waiting on hold was a horrible experience.  

This would probably help since the next one I build I could immediately put for sale and do a short term rental while it sells.I have many years of construction experience and have also done a fix and flip, in addition to building ground up construction, as well as 10 years of entrepreneurial experience running a paddle board rental company... i have a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech , a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from UT Austin, and did Postdoctoral research using Computational Engineering where I designed, manufactured, and tested a shock mitigating metamaterial...

Hello everyone! My wife and I are exploring western NC as a possible STR location. Would love any thoughts/feedback on the overall area and the viability of investing there. Thanks in advance for your time!

You can use the free versions of Airdna and Data Rabbu to see how well those sources predict it could do. 

I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can as I grow in my experience with real estate investing.