Worked for a digital marketing startup for a year and a half before deciding to move into real estate.Goals:Build a professional network that allows me to help my buyers while also grow my own real estate portfolio.My sister owns a couple rentals in St.

I've secured financing, decided that pursuing a BRRRR deal sits well with our risk tolerance and financial situation, and now we have to find it.While "driving for dollars", Zillow, and networking have landed me a couple leads, I feel as though working with wholesalers will be a huge asset. 

He otherwise would be a perfect tenant planning to stay in town for a couple of yes.

Now I know having an LLC is important to protect yourself and your assets, but is having an LLC necessary for doing your first couple wholesale deals? 

Adding one property every couple of years.  

My next suggestion which maybe of bigger help is to find and join or attend a couple REIA meetings or groups, they are often your best source for contacts and to get a real time pulse of what is going on in your market area.

Too many newbies read one book, or spend a couple of hours reading and thing they know it all.

We had all the RIGHT puzzle pieces sitting in our laps (great realtor, carpenters, and mortgage broker as close friends and family) so we just had to simply put them together (with a lot of hard work and having a family of 4 living in one room at a time for a couple years.)We are now moving to Roslyn, WA and hope to start a similar (although not as extensive) project there and also try to acquire some SFHs in Kittitas County to start our REI education/climb to billions. :) This feels like bragging, but it was a lot of market luck, hard work, amazing friends, and a wife with an eye for staging.

Their last couple of tenants left a mess and the house needed a fair amount of TLC just to be passible.  

There are a lot of people with great advice and experience on this site so you should be able to learn a lot.There are a lot local meet ups that you can attend that will help you learn and network.