All the wholesalers I have come across just try to rip us off -- and as shown by the companies track record for not falling for traps, we dont take scammers/liars too well.I want to reach and make connections with the cream of the crop wholesalers but just am not sure how...

By "short timeline", I simply mean the quickest path - I understand this is a complex industry where an established track record is a must-have.Would getting my Commercial Real Estate Broker's license and working for a Commercial Brokerage, or finding deals for experienced syndicators (without a broker's license), better serve me in reaching my goal as quickly as possible?

@Adam FrancoFlips are recorded at your regular income tax rate, subject to self-employment tax.You figure out your final cost basis (purchase, rehab, insurance, property taxes, financing, permit fees, commissions, utilities, etc.) and the difference between the sales price and the final cost basis is the profit made that will be taxed as ordinary income.You should speak with a CPA to help organize things and try to minimize the tax impact.

I'm looking at a property that has R2 zoning it is listed  as a single-family with an accessory unit in the public records.

need track record  very strong balance sheet and lots of liquidity.you kind of have to work up to it.. unless you have millions in liquidity that your willing to pledge.too me this would be a project you would do once your a mature development company with many projects in the books.

The next steps are putting in an offer and organizing financing.

The tax lien (also called a fifa) exists prior to the tax sale and is recorded in the county's lien records - it's an unpaid debt secured by the property.  

It can be great to video record yourself and role play with your broker or other colleagues.

Check the tax records

and repeating the process with worst case numbers.The premise behind the Monte Carlo approach is to assign each variable in your model a probability distribution and then letting your PC run 10K scenarios where it picks a random value for each of your variables based on your probability distribution that you assigned and records the result.