You will ultimately get more value, sweat equity, if you rehab yourself.

A great first read for anyone just getting started in Real Estate Investing is The Bigger Pockets Ultimate Beginner Guide.

Check out this guide on wholesaling, it would help a lot in getting started: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/01/31/ultimate-beginners-guide-real-estate-wholesaling-2/

Save yourself time and money, understand how to properly value a deal (which includes assessing the risk as well), keep it simple in the beginning. 

You can just click Print and then save the 'Results Grid' as a PDF and it will basically show you the same thing.

David Stone unless you have a huge deposit saved up, banks are unlikely to approve a mortgage that size on a $22k/yr income.I say take the owner financing even if it is 3-4% higher than bank rate.

I have been on BiggerPockets and learning for a while and now really focusing on saving money for down payments and reno/rehab.

We are all quite capable of living below our means, and saving a large percentage of our income in our first one or two years of working.

May need to go hard money as my cs is 634 and have some $$$ saved. 

Hello all.I am a newbie  and step one for me is saving for a down payment and practice analyzing deals.