I agree with the previous posts, the tariffs brought an almost immediate increase in appliance prices, but from what I've seen it mainly affected the higher end products.

Most success stories I've heard involves owning many houses and they are all at different addresses.One of the main reasons is because of the pain you experience  with a vacancy. 

Main part of the reason I'm still with my W2 job, and also the 401k as a backup in case my real estate goes bust. 

As a wholesaler your buyers are looking for mainly off-market properties.

Turn key rentals is my main niche where i live.

Bribing her with a donation to her church is only going to reduce how much you can pay her for the property so is likely to be counter productive to convincing her to sell at a lower price unless she is stupid.

The main concern you are going to have is with seller financing how is the agent going to get paid.

We’ve been concentrating on the main living space upstairs at this point.

It seems pretty obvious that his model works well for him, but at least for me, the main takeaway is that this is just one model. 

Neither of us like asking for money (kind of a pride thing I guess) but that is the main thing missing from our business plan at this point.