Also, find a loan officer who understands your age and life stage and who will truly put your interests first and help you get a financial strategy that will set you up for success. 

You'll find that there are plenty of large scale wholesale companies, but also smaller wholesalers that tend to source deals with larger spreads.

What groups within those social media sites are they finding the more experienced investors?

I searched but didn't find any specific referrals.

My son will be helping us with marketing, advertising (if needed), press coverage (if needed) and finding investors / lenders (if needed).

What other interesting options do you find outside the US?

Tough in California of course, but I would wait until you find an area where you can live and house hack.

I have about $125k of sellable equity between two properties I'd love to use to either fund down payments or fund the entire purchase and then refinance out, but I don't want to put $20k-100k or more on a CC and find I can't refinance out because I tanked my score 100+ points. 

Additonally, purchase price points are cheap - you can still find $120k-$180k deals here in Columbus.

Please find my comments below: 1- The flips will be OOS investment.