I'm not too far away from you and I frequent the real estate meet ups in  Orange County.

I would think before so he gets the gist of what he's looking into but want to make sure to the person who wholesales more frequent than I do.

I see wholesaling done frequently with empty homes for flippers or other investors.

My husbands job moves him frequently, but we're currently located in the Ft.

We will frequently refer to the former list when we are full.  

We frequently go to lunch or dinner to get to know to whom our money might be going.

I also frequent automobile and stereo forums. 

I know one of the strategies I hear frequently on the BP podcasts is to purchase a single family home investment property, fix it up to increase the value and then refinance - taking profits to use as a down payment to purchase another property, presumably right away.

In order to help, all of us would need a lot of information from you to even begin to help.It sounds like you are going to need a real education before you begin to look at buying communities.Consider the Mobile Home University Course which is mentioned frequently on this forum. ( Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds)Consider talking to George Allen who is a consultant to community owners and maybe subscribing to his Allen Letter.

One of the most frequent mistakes I've seen DIYers and CPAs who are not familiar with real estate tax law make relating to STRs, along with passive activity loss treatment.Unfortunately no one is going to be able to get all of the facts through a forum post.