for builders in the business and experienced their construction lenders will do a land advance.for everyone else you might as well come to the realization your going to need the land paid for.save you a lot of time and heartaches searching for that unicorn lender..

Since the the housing market has appreciated so rapidly over the last few years, the wholesale business margins have gotten very thin and will continue to get thinner within the next year or two.If you want to start wholesaling properties with a lot of meat on the bone (profits), I would suggest looking East and Inland towards some of the areas where the affordable housing has shifted to such as Inland Empire, High Desert, Coachella Valley and any other markets that always tend to ride on the coattails of the Metro markets such as Los Angeles. 

Most of your fix and flip products will be a 65% ARV .

They have interviewed many successful investors that started in the wholesaling business. 

Which in turn will bring plenty of other investors and general business to the area.

It’s a 5 minute drive from a major entertainment district, downtown business area, and near the crossroads of 2 interstates.

Can someone point me to a podcast, book or blog post about how to run your rental properties as a business. 

Investing and being a landlord is a business.

If you have STRs there: - Do you stay busy year round?

People who have no business being homeowners have the ability to buy homes.There is a balance between making home ownership attainable but not so attainable that it inadvertently brings way too many buyers in to play.