If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

But first, in order to sell our primary, there are some renovations that will need to be made, so I've decided to document the process as this will be our first 'live-in flip' as well (and hopefully some other beginners can learn something - or at least you all can be entertained!).

I highly recommend checking out the Ultimate Beginner's Guide (link below) to familiarize you with a broad look at REI as a whole.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

I suggest you immediately download the Ultimate Beginner's Guide and listen to all of the podcasts.  

So far I've read Bigger Pocket's beginner guide and listen to a few podcasts.

There is plenty of highly promising/almost magical real estate investing ideas out there for beginner like me, but I tend to be very weary of things that appear too good to be true (science background here, I've been trained to be skeptical).

The Ultimate Beginners Guide is a good way to build a solid foundation.

How would a beginner real estate investor go about starting to wholesale.

Be sure to read through The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started.Also - be sure to check out House Flipping: The Best of BiggerPockets.