It was $1M at first and eventually grew to $5M.When I had about $3.5 M in personal assets, my attorney and I started working on protecting my personal assets as well as isolating the liability from the investing assets.

Eventually, it's better to get a mentor... but only when you have made a few deals and are able to afford one...

I am interested in starting my real estate journey through wholesaling and eventually want to secure enough capital so I can become a buy and hold type investor.

Eventually having 8-16 homes renting out and providing me with a passive income.  

Most people tell me no but eventually someone counter offers and then we start that conversation.

If i go through with this i would occupy one unit but eventually will move elsewhere and the plan is to rent them both out.Can you please let me know what you think?

Eventually they realize that they need to act quickly, and adapt to my way of doing things, but it ultimately benefits all of us, because I can bring them a lot of sales at full commission and I do a lot of the work!

I am interested in investing in general , wholesaling , owning rental property, and eventually learning to flip houses once I have more experience and money.

Yes eventually you'll run out of down payment money unless they are all true BRRRR's but you'll still stretch your money further this way and get the benefits of being able to leverage into more properties than if you were to just blow your wad as a down payment into a full market priced property in hopes that it will appreciate over time.  

I'm interested in wholesaling to begin with, and then I plan on doing some fix & flips and eventually get some rental properties.