I've found there are cheap all-wood flat pack cabs that are much better for similar money.

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Instead of cash-flow you're creating value and saving thousands on taxes if you choice to sell. 

Sounds like you are coming to the rescue to save a deal your brother doesnt have the capability of closing himself.

The stock market has been on a tear this year… so if you could make 25% on your money in the stock market (as has been the case year to date), you are better off leaving your mortgages in place and investing the money in ETF’s, etc.  

QBO is nice because any accountant or bookkeeper should be extremely familiar, plus it automatically pulls bank accounts, which saves some time. 

My virtual assistant saves down all of my receipts in the "Date - Amount - Expense Type" format in a folder for each property so we can easily identify which receipt is for which expense. 

Is it possible to get into wholesaling without money and income?

After doing the program for couple of deals, I find out it is almost impossible to make profit on doing Flip with their system, since they are providing these stuff:1.Sourcing clients with deals on Zillow, that is anybody can do that, you can't buy a property with very low prices2.Asking un-credited investors to borrow Hard Money Loan, I don't really think anyone don't have much experience should borrow Hard Money Loan, with balloon loan mechanism, it is basically teaching new-bees to suicide.!

My brother and I want to get into real estate investing for passive income, and we’re thinking about starting off with a duplex in a year or two after saving some money, that we can live in and rent other unit(s).