However, having an older car for everyday travels, and renting a car for a longer trip is still more cost-effective than buying a new car every 4-5 years.

This helps to weed out all the tire kickers and millions of trips to show the unit to unqualified candidates. 

Please understand that I'm aware there's more to it such as taking deductions like home office expenses, marketing, education, business mileage/trips, amortization, etc...Also, when would it be wise to restructure as an S-corp, taking a w-2 salary from the corp?

I learned that wholesaling is full of shady characters versus traditional MLS sales.

For example if someone were to trip and fall and break their neck in our store, they couldn’t come after our personal assets they would only be limited to the assets of the business, of course after insurance.

. :-)Either way...I hope you enjoy your trip to Charlotte!

I answered my phone back when I started over 20 years ago and I tripped over my tognue a few times before I figured out what I wanted to say or the right questions to ask.

I started researching in January (reading the books and listening to the podcasts), waited till I got back from a trip to China in July, then bought the 3rd house I looked at, a duplex which I closed on in August.

It would be good to take a trip out to Vancouver and see if you can attend some local REI group meetings, to network with other investors and wholesalers to see if there is a need or possibly folks to partner with.

This will be my first trip to the area, but it looks like a very good market to invest in buy and hold properties.