I am a newbie investor in Austin, Texas through a coaching program.

And to expand on this further there are "Downpayment Assistance Programs" that will allow you to bring even $0 to closing. 

@Nick Weston - A house hack may be a good play as housing is ordinarily a fixed expense with the IRS giving favorable treatment to the gain on the sale of one's principal residence, exempting that amount up to $250k if you are single and $500k if married provided you have owned the property for 2 years at the time of sale. 

You should check out that County / City for their Section 8 programs.

Hey Albertinny, that's my site. i own and run a marketing agency. so i had some help ;-). i've been doing PPC since 2007. i've been doing lead generation for real estate since 2017. i would say roughly 5000 hours and a couple million dollar in ad spend (luckily paid for by clients). however you can start a class or training program and be good enough to get ads up in a matter of hours. you could test out these skills for only a couple hundred bucks. from there it's just Niche, effort and commitment.

Speak with a lender regarding different loan programs that can fit your financial situation. i.e. stated income loans.3.

Mint and Wave are also good programs for tracking personal and business finances when you're starting out.

What are your experience like and thoughts about the program?

That's all wholesaling is as it's taught in these programs, it's brokering real estate except instead of being up front & telling the distressed seller that you'll sell their property for X amount & take X amount as your commission / fee you are taught to lie to the seller & pretend you are going to buy the property while you secretly attempt to "assign" your contract.It doesn't work.

@Jerry Lucker I encourage people to try free options before they pay for anything that way they can see if it helps them before spending money, that is why I am a huge believer in free landlord associations, even inexpensive ones are probably fine, I just don't want people to spend thousands of dollars on some guru's "system" thinking that is the only way to break into real estate when it is advertised as an association and not a sales program.