A real estate professional is one who:(1)works 750 hours or more in a real estate trade or business in which the individual has at least 5% equity and materially participates, and(2)more than half of the services that the individual provides are in a real estate trade or business in which the individual has at least 5% equity and materially participates.For your common, non-equity W-2 employee who works full time, this makes it not impossible to qualify as an RE pro, but highly improbable, as your average full-time employee works around 2,000 hours in a year, give or take. 

Even then you have to do the legwork up front to vet the sponsor and individual deal.

Or if they looks at the price of individual units year over year...but both of those require a lot of work to get those data.

I am a highly motivated individual who’s looking to get started in wholesaling.

They will gain ownership of the individual residence in the same manner someone gains ownership of a home through traditional amortized accounting, while also building a savings budget for repairs and maintenance.

(**most of my first investors were management clients who saw and liked what I was doing).2020: Me and my partner own 3,000 apartments via syndication (along with nearly 200 high net worth individuals and families that invest as LP's).

Looking for advice and feedback from individuals with experience buying and flipping REO homes.

We're considering offering this on an individual basis to our investors - strictly for properties that we are keeping for our own portfolio. 

Sprout offered to set up my LLC with it's own credit...totally separate from my individual credit.

BP is filled with driven individuals looking to start or grow their REI businesses while adding value to others along the way.