You can then cherrypick some deals that you'd like to keep for yourself, and just act as the listing agent on others, using a trained hourly assistant to handle day-to-day interactions with lenders, buyers, and sellers.

How much support, training can they provide?

Jerry Kisasonak - you should look into attorney Brad Dornish out that way; he has a website where he offers some reasonably priced training materials - including some wholesaling material.

I call it on-the-job training and it can be tough and intimidating.

I dont know of a source of what you are asking for but have you considered putting a basic training page or frequently asked question page together with your personal answers, or a short video training and have people review before they contact you.

There is no one better in LO Training.

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But you have a point; I may as well train my handyman if it means paying less.

This person will need some serious training from me...Incidentally, my wife and I just came from Cinci last night.

The right contractor makes all the difference.If the property needs corrected health and safety items such as replaced gutters or repaired dry wrought it’s because a trained construction expert or appraiser knows it’s necessary to protect the buyer’s and lender’s interest.It’s no more difficult for the borrower to qualify for a 203k loan either, it’s an FHA loan.Any Realtor who says you can’t use a 203k to buy a short sale is wrong.Like most Realtors, they don’t understand the loan so they stay away from it and tell their clients the same.This is a shame since there are 203k classes out there for Realtors to learn how it works, I teach one.