This isn't easy and it isn't some get rich quick job.

You'll have very quickly increased your net by 45K against 10K start...it's just not very liquid is it.I'll stop there because I just looked at page 2, now your property value estimates are VERY NICE.

By taking the time to view properties in the areas you want to do business in, you'll quickly learn your market and get the experience of talking and meeting with sellers. 

Quickly.

Somebody is siphoning off your monthly rent and you need to control the situatuon quickly.

The appraiser explained appraised values had declined and I would be given a "quick sale" number (which was still 2X what I had paid for the house a decade earlier).The same type of appraisal inflation occurred during the real estate bubble of the 2000s leading up to the Financial Crisis of 2008 (The appraisal bubble: In run up to real estate bust, lenders pushed appraisers to inflate values).

It has now become common place for wholesalers to come in and offer 25 - 35 k over the asking price and then quickly turn around a double close where they get a +20k commission. 

They wanted to tie it up quickly and see if they could move it, they couldn't.  

If you haven't read this article, do so.https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/forget-br...Here's a quick recap on my situation:My property in Missouri is about rehabbed. 

@Jason Hsiao, @Dan Krupa, @Jody Schnurrenberger So it sounds like the thing that makes an agent valuable in your mind is an understanding of the analysis and doing some of that work up front so the investor can quickly see if the numbers work.