(for those not in the know on the analytics, millions weekly is not millions of individual persons, it could be 100k people visiting 10,20,30+ times, and most often any connected person has gone thru re-targeting multiple times)There are some veterans out there who do well with less, although that's the point, veterans, they have developed skills and local market knowledge on how to do it in a niche manner. 

But with USAA being a big bank, the person I spoke with may have no experience with an individual investor.

There is individual hook ups for both - so I guess they can source their own (even though it might be a pain in the butt).

You'll have way to many questions when you begin, so I encourage you to write them all down and ask different individuals to get an answer.

Wholesaling is a term where an investor may have access to many properties and sells the contracts to individual buyers.

Build a relationship/friendship with an individual.  

Individuals can find many different opportunities to earn income in real estate because it will never go out of style.

This was my first individual purchase of a property.

They each have their own thermostat so you can control rooms individually.

When an individual person gets a credit report from freecredit or Experian/equifax/TU it is a consumer credit report - not the same type as used in mortgage today.Some HELOC lenders are looking at using a Vantage score, another topic...Banks such as Wells and Citi stopped doing HELOCs this year.