Does liberating yourself from employers mean eventually quitting your job?

The best tool in there is their direct link to social media.More costly but worth it:We have access to a service called tracers that, for .50 per pull, gets us some of the most up to date info on anyone out there.We also employ a couple of private eyes that are somewhat entrepreneurial that will not only locate the owner but set up the appt for between 500-1000 per closed transaction.These are a few of the tools we use to locate our sellers...

Personally, I believe the tech bubble will burst which will deeply effect the Bay Area economy in employment,housing inventory, and multiple other factors. 

But also make sure to make your own phone calls as well, at least to their employer and past landlords.

CA has too many taxes, 15.15% for employer taxes, plus 45% workers comp for carpenters, I'm not even touching the profit and contingency yet.

You need them to sign an authorization to check employment, rental history, and credit/criminal report...in most states.

@Jake Gaines As a wholesaler, the income generated is likely going to be active income (vs. passive income for buy and hold), so an S Corp is generally better suited for that type of activity because of the tax saving benefits (less income is subject to self-employment tax).

You're all over the place, the best place to start is pave a pathway and know what's out there, since you're in CA and want to flip, read J Scott's book at least 3 times and internalize it.

The S-Corp allows that you can pay yourself using the salary / dividend split (1:2) to limit self-employment tax.

So far I have been getting all the distributions and life is good.However, now that I am doing taxes for 2014 (I extended), tax man says that that interest is subject to self-employment taxes.