One tip: don't try to chase the impossible and the best numbers, try to start with a simple secure deal that maybe is not giving you the best ever ROI, but that is giving you the learning experience to do better and more in the future. 

It's simple enough for them to lend you the money to buy the property and have a mortgage and note.

Seems simple and strait to the point!!

They have been making it stupid simple for over 20 years to target foreclosures, from the start of the Lis Pendens filing, to the auction. iMapp is built into most of the realtor MLSs, and they DO offer accounts for $100 per month that are just the 'straight dope' property data, without the MLS information included.

How much more could you succeed if you did this one simple task?

Real Estate Syndication is actually quite simple.

My value to this deal is simple that I listen to the needs of the sellers What was the outcome?

The classes teach you how to stay out of legal trouble, as well as useful concepts and vocabulary, but you have to learn about marketing your services and building relationships outside of class.So for the prelicensing, I would recommend handwriting your notes in-class and/or focusing on the guided notes.

That is a simple fact, regardless if you or others like it or not.I agree that some approaches in this thread may be harsh or leave little to be desired by any wholesaler and would be wholesaler, but looking at it from the other side of the fence, when people get scammed, they get hurt and other people do something about it.To your original post and in the attempt to educate you since you stated you are new, a $10 EMD (earnest money deposit) is a typical guru education point and is not a legitimate EMD on any property.

You might be able to avoid the attorney fees by using a simple, standard FNMA note and have a title company close it.