At $5k for pier footings, $8k for a mobile delivered and another couple thousand to reconnect services, I'm looking at a $15k building ready to rent, that should pay for itself in a couple years rent wise... 

Even realtors that get into wholesaling are doing it part time because they are working with their normal retail buy/sell clients to generate their normal income.I noticed a lot of those guru programs teach the same thing (mail to absentee and probate), making it competitive now that the market is now getting 5x as many of the same letters every week.    

For a flip, I recommend $10 per square foot plus $10,000 as a rough guide.  

Is that normal?

Fill up costs for 275 gallon tank that is 1/4 full still means you put in about 200 gallons or more; when prices crept to $4 per gallon, that's an $800 fill up that lots of tenants won't be able to cough up, or if they do the rent might be short ;) And it will need to be filled multiple times during a normal heating season; this past December, being so warm, obviously reduces that a bit this season. 

I've took interest in pre-foreclosure and wholesaleing with creative financing like "subject to" to hopefully get a foot in the door. 

Brandon asks the guy how he can do something like that, including checking up on the property, and he replies that he's bought and sold property without ever setting foot into the place.  

Is this normal and if so, what are some ways i can work this out?  

It's near a high crime area but also there is a street that acts like a funnel one block away, forcing any foot traffic very close to it

I did point out the other option was that they could continue paying the rent until the lease would normally expire and that I was doing them a favor allowing them to break this contract and they shut up about this "hassle" business.Gail