After visiting with some of these folks, I've set 20% ROI as my goal for evaluating a deal.As for finding deals that work, regardless of what your criteria is, the DFW market is such as strong seller's market right now that it's unlikely you're going to find anything, unless it's off market or an REO/HUD property, particularly if you're talking about areas people actually want to live in. 

With a tenant people cannot come and go as they please to evaluate the property.

Thanks for the advice, I will continue to dive deeper into current listings and evaluating their potential. :)

I watch the people slow down to check out the progress of a project and think to myself why the hell am I not taking advantage of this? 

This allowed me to work on the key elements of a wholesaler, negotiation, accurate property evaluation, and marketing.

Congratulations on such great progress.

Learn to evaluate deals.

Any other ideas on how I could access a HELOC without having to go back to work full time, which would severely  hold back my progress at building my own business and reaching the bigger goal which is  of course becoming self sufficient.  

I didnt really I know anything about evaluating stocks/companies I just had lucky timing and invested in companies I thought would do well financially.

Will be ineterested to see how the progress goes.