So, I ask who should I be talking to, where should I be reading on BP, what are some other good sources to look into, is this feasible, and where do I start?

I’ve found Investing in Real Estate 7th Edition and What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cashflow and 36 Key Financial Measures to help me understand the concepts of analysis by leaps and bounds.

I am curious if most wholesalers are buying them (list source, yellow letter etc) pulling them from the MLS, pulling them from Zillow, probates, court, or making them yourselves via driving for dollars.

@Joe Senchuk You mentioned cash for keys.

Basically what I'm imagining is the Marketplace Properties for Sale page here on BP but instead of just forum posts with all the details in text content and images, a database with all of the fields searchable, and then you could do things like apply the BP calculators against the numbers on the properties so you could easily pull up and compare key metrics like cap rate, COC return, etc.

The location is one key variable that attracts the tenant. 

Are you looking to buy rental properties that need work or something more  turn key?

If it's a marginal deal and you have little to no experience you should probably just fix your credit.The money also has to come from their funds sourced from their asset statements over the last 60 days in order to get approved by the lender.

There are 4 key dates:year 5 -- 10% step up in basisyear 7 -- add'l 5% step up in basis12/31/26 -- recognition of adj. capital gains as gross incomeyear 10+ -- basis = the price you sell it at

The key issue we had was last summer.