With all the research you can do online these days, you can verify that your not being lied to or mislead fairly easily.  

I first got interested into real estate over a year ago, and at first thought I was going to be able to do things easily by listening and paying for a guru.

I am retired military and never give up so easily.

If there is a pending lawsuit your monthly dues can easily double to pay for it. 

The problem most peoples LLC s assets quickly grow larger then your personal assets They are great from ease of creating business partnerships,ventures but as @Bill G mentions they are easily vulnerable to lawsuits especially since many single person llc personal income are not filed on separate returns

I would like the map(s) to be big enough to easily view streets and isolated neighborhoods.  

Now that $20,000 could be easily invested, rather in CD's from banks etc... to cover the interest on that 401K loan.

We want to buy another home and can easily get a mortgage through USDA or FHA except for the fact that we need to get out from under the current home.  

One was missing the heat pump (cha ching $5k easily to put one in)This was a good learning experience in dealing with foreclosures.

Maybe a starting point would be a good list of resources for wholesaling as a sticky so it can be found easily.