I'm going into my senior year at the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota studying Finance and Entrepreneurial Management.

I'd suggest you read the article if this is part of your program and then study HARD the financials on banks you're doing business with.

I've been studying the wholesaling aspect of real estate for a good while now but I pretty much have just one more thing I need to understand.

Of course, you'll need to study marketing, salesmanship, & negotiation in order to pull this off.

I mean here I am two full years into my independent real estate studies and transactional funding totally slipped my mind.

Studies done by behavioral economists show that people get more lasting satisfaction from experiences than from material possessions.In addition to the reason given above above, I would like home prices to go down for one more reason: I think our society has created a "moral-hazard" favoring bubbles.

If you really go down this road I can set you up with the people that write the hoa agreements, the management agreements etc... research, research, research and market study first though... know this is a pretty advanced game and you will get burned without knowing how to play it...

One negative could be at times I felt some of it was too lengthy but that may have just come because I already knew the information from my time studying real estate.

I've been studying, learning and doing deals for almost 5 years now.

As far as the imports vs. indigenous discussion goes, my observation is that in college all my study groups were all Indian, due to the fact that the american-born kids were lousy students who didn't care as long as they got a c in the course.