PS - Spend as much face-to-face time with other investors as humanly possible, they are honest, helpful and inspirational.

I can hook you up with my AFEX dealer in Melbourne if you want an intro. 

A bit like the drug dealer who claims he sold the briefcase not the drugs inside it.The way wholesaling is generally thought of, assigning contracts without the knowledge of the seller, there are consequences, those consequences range from failure to jail. 

These are examples of when a human with some understanding of the real estate market, neighborhood, and current trends needs to interpret the data.Last, and very important- unless you are in a rural area, a three mile radius is far too large. 

Once you start doing more then you will become a target for the IRS and they will consider you a dealer so you will for sure be taxed as regular income.

It would not matter to you if a locale has a human life time (100 years) of long-term appreciation and numerous economic indicators and studies that there will continue to be long term appreciation. 

While the agent is bound to serve you both equally, the human factors prevail and  the sellers requests/demands WILL prevail.As the seller pays both his and your agents fees, by all means find your own agent.

We're dealing with people.... human feelings and human shortcomings, including those of overworked case managers and things that the tenant can't control.7.

It's what the dealer recommended for rentals.

As long as I screen everyone good, and have a good face-face interviewing, then I always end up with good paying tenant .. for now at least - knock on wood.My prior section 8 inspector was more like human and down to earth.