When you do finally leverage -- leverage very conservatively.You will have enough money to create a great passive income stream that could be more be actively reinvested.

If I can then awesome, invest something in yourself, and if I can't I promise you will have gotten some great information worth your 2 hours.One final point about the "rookie" comment, we have tried very hard to make sure our education is valuable not just for the rookie investor, but for the investor who is doing 2-6 even 10 deals a year and having trouble stepping it up.  

I would love to hold properties in perpetuity, but given my grandparents and their parents, are no longer here, the prospect is doubtful.I'm one of these numbers driven geeks - 2.5 decades in software development and design may play a part - and, as such, all our properties were modelled prior to acquisition.

If you want agents to shotgun lowball offers to finally get one accepted to rehab and flip a property then the odds are low you will find an agent happy to do that.An example would be showing an agent you have 50,000 cash to put down on a flip and are using hard money for the rest.

So after 4 months on a short sale endeavor I finally got the final word from the lender.

Hello BP, I finally got my agent license in the works and am currently wholesaling in the Northwest of Indiana.

Finally, you may also want to google Vacation Rental Forums and see if you can get some additional information there.

Experienced investors I work with understand the RE lead marketing is continuous effort and at time takes 2 yrs or more to finalize a deal from probate and inherited leads.  

I think that's what we call a parable, and people have been learning from parables for at least 2014 years.One final thought.

Glad that you finally jumped in, and have found the podcasts.