Of course at this state the name of the game is LEARN - which I have been doing through every book I can get my hands on.  

One option to control your insurance expenses are to insure for ACV (covers yours and lender's skin in the game). 

I would think 3 days would be adequate in most situations for them to "crunch their numbers". 15 days is just a time period they can keep it off the market and play stall games.

We focus on "3D" photography, as well as your typical 2D photos and video content.

I always see videos on how to wholesale properties but no one ever goes over the actual pitch to the person selling the property. 

Luckily I knew a friend there that's a realtor now and she went and viewed properties for us, sent us pictures/videos, scoped out the area and we purchased one of the ones she saw.

Played the month long waiting game.

All...new to the game, and eager to learn.

If he put some skin in the game, would that make it better, or would this still be a low return considering the risk?

I am working on my rough draft of 3D model designing of the new floor plan to be converted from singlewide trailer into 16x32 duplex houses on the same permanent trailer foundation with deck porches (just demolish entire mobile home to convert into stick-built house) and on the process of signing up my new real estate investment crowdfunding campaign (website) to be posted with my finalized proofreading content with a lot of pictures and video.