As I continue learning about the wholesaling business while ramping up my marketing and expanding into new geographies, I wonder about the fundamentals of the business model. 

Thanks for your time and any support and expertise you can give.

The model is incredible.  

To get people out and raise rents, owners and investors in Metropolis are having to pay "severance packages" for tenant of 5 - $10,000 / $20,000 / $25,000 sometimes more depending on surface and other factors.Your solution is to build model to sell these unit to the tenants (on a massive scale).The model you come up with to tackle these 550 low yielding units you portfolio is the following: Instead of using bribes to kick people out you decide to "subsidizing tenants'" into 1st time ownership. i.e. you want to help them to buy there own flat (at least the tenants who are decent earners).Instead of using money to get tenants out, the model would be to help them get financing by sponsoring a portion of the deposit on the Mortgage.

Hello,I recently bought my first house in southern California last month for $208,000 and at the time another model home (upgraded) went for $225k.

It's a skill set that I have a feeling will come in handy early on the RE investing journey as I have to think through supplier relationships (i.e. property managers, contractors) and how to get certain goods for re-models, capital improvements, and annual maintenance.I'm still formulating my RE goals, and I'm still very much enjoying my professional career... so I'd say that my goal is to generate enough cash flow that I don't need my W2 career to survive and I'm free to focus much more on what I'd like to do professionally rather than what I think I have to do to survive.

The fault in that logic, of course, is that you can not keep money you haven't made yet.One of my earliest adopted mentors, Robert Allen of "Nothing Down" fame, expressed it using a model he described as "bathtub economics".

Would I try to enlist the expertise of a realtor with the understanding that they get to sell the place when we're ready?

Rather than the typical upfront monthly retainer model, I'll be guaranteeing x number of results and clients will pay at the end of the month only if we hit our mark.

Not saying what to do or not do or evaluating your model, just bringing up things to be careful of.