The first six months has involved 2 evictions (of tenants living in jail), solving a $1,000 a month water leak, and generally cracking down on tenants skipping payments from previously relaxed management styles.

@Kyle Brodwater I suggest that you skip becoming an agent and instead take the time to learn how to be an investor by building your network and finding opportunities to earn passive income while you are still earning a paycheck from the military.

If you have csv data that you can upload to Facebook preferably data on motivated sellers that are skip traced and contain phone numbers and emails you will be able to use that as a starting point.

Given your scenario I would skip the back door.

This property is less than two blocks away from the BART station, which is not only going to add something like 100-150K to the bottom line of the property, but in addition, because we were so close to public transportation, we got to completely skip plan review (1-4 months) to add an extra unit at the back of the house!

.- "Skip Trace" the address to get the owner's public information (from several unknown data sources) There are several companies / applications that do skip tracing.

Purchase price is $430k and current loan is $300k, so we'll have to pay the 130k difference. 26 payments have been made so far, so we skipped the 2 most expensive years of the loan.

I think most wholesalers here skip right over the mobile homes, which IMHO might be a mistake.

I skipped the finance section of the "How to Invest" book and am reading the types of investments portion first because it said earlier in the book that whatever type of investment you do will kind of determine what you do.

So many new investors agonize over their deals and then skip over the importance of quality management.