Also watch your back the wholesale game is very very very very cut throat some wholesalers turn other wholesalers in sucks I know best advice I can say is build your network of cash buyers and send to them directly don’t blast things out would be my advice but some deals you have to blast out .

Then we'd ask them to tell us which friends of theirs are in the game, followed by asking those friends to lunch.

That means they have skin in the game and are less likely to be ignoring your calls come the 24th.I usually take a $200 booking deposit to hold the apt.

The quicker I pay off the loan, the quicker I can get that money "back in the game."

You'll pay tax on the difference but shelter the rest in your 1031.Selling one larger asset and buying several smaller ones in different geographies whether true turnkey or not is another option.  

I am a graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a Computer Engineer working from home as a NoSQL database developer although most of my career has been spent as an automation and systems engineer.I am a new player in the real estate game having started the marathon just 2 years ago when I attended a Guru real estate seminar.

Very true. 

When deal is too good to be true in foreclosure bidding.

Study (as said, really good tips there), from there figure out your game plan/business plan, then just start calling banks and talking to loan officers.  

I am thinking about upping the game and buying my first multi-family home later this year, probably in fall.