I’ve researched it online and:— I see the liens, but unclear on how to read them properly.

Love this online community and the wealth of knowledge here.

And creating an LLC here is extremely easy, you can do it online.

If you see any quality lower-cost courses on wholesaling or marketing available locally or online, consider taking them. 

Generally I am firm on this because I like to have first months rent and security deposit before move in. I

Outside of this, it may help to start with a few basic online sources (rentometer.com, CraigsList, etc) to give you a jumping off point and some rough market insight.  

We found an agent online and he recommended lenders and inspectors etc.

So to somewhat agree with you the sharpest agents who know the most and make decent money are not working in the areas most wholesalers work in.. IE

Property listed online (Trulia, Zillow, etc..) and is well below market value and appears to be depressed. ~ I'm thinking this is a shortsale2.

@Eric Veronicayeah the per unit min was surprising to me as well, mentioned nothing in the online application...The subject property is 4 units, future properties would be 2-4 (that 1-4 was a typo)