Thanks ahead of time.

To be clear, I’m not afraid of IRS as all of my records are straight, but I’m not a fan of Apts.com using this strategy, so I will start looking for alternatives.

I’ve listened to countless BP podcast episodes so I’ve likely heard of most of the ways, but go ahead and throw em down there and it might make me think about them harder.

Alex, you seem to be someone who is always thinking ahead which is a great way to be.

You can then go ahead and do with the money as you please, for example build a new house.It's fine to tell them you don't know how this works and ask them to explain.

if you're looking for free leads, go ahead on zillow and call for sale by owners.

Then your housing problem will still be solved and you'll already know ahead of time the expense of leaving this apartment earlier due to buying your own place.PS..... just remember that a realtor advising you to buy a house is like a supermarket giving you diet tips.

Anyway, I thought about looking into doing a cash-out refinance to go ahead and tap some of that equity while keeping the rent checks coming (I'm probably also going to look into a property manager, but that's a different discussion). 

If your goal is to be a real estate investor, then I highly recommend you learn/study/live an actual RE investing strategy like buy and hold (which can be straight landlording, house hacking, BRRRR) and can be done in single family or multi family or you can flip or develop properties (but that too is a job and income stops when you stop flipping).Not to discourage you from your wholesaling desires, but think long and hard as to how and why you came to such a decision and know it is NOT RE investing.

I do give advice frequently, but I try to be a straight shooter and not give advice if I am uncertain.