I am looking for information on wholesaling and curious what courses or books any of you may recommend.

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Check out the city on VRBO and see what a typical property like yours rents for and how booked up they are.It would require more management, but a lot of those VRBO properties are very automated and I imagine you could put systems in place to have even fewer headaches than a regular rental if done properly.

I know I'm late to this thread, and while I agree with most of what @Steve Theobald said, there is one form of work-around that is mentioned in @Brandon Turner's books (The Book On Rental Properties & 7 Years to 7 Figure Wealth.

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Think about what you can realistically do now to grow your savings and build credit, at what point you'd have enough to take the next step, preparation needed to get to the next step, and five and 10 year or longer goals.I'm currently in a holding a pattern this year, so you could say my current business plan is to read more real estate books, be active on BP forums, post my adventures and ponderings on my BP blog, do more maintenance inspections on our rentals, dream ad explore five and 10 year options, and work to reduce expensive tenant turnover.

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I have gone to a few auctions in McHenry County, IL.. and watched these very tight lipped "investors".. with these books that had listings in them... and they were going down the line and crossing off the listings as they were sold, cancelled or rescheduled..