I do have some money to invest with, but don’t want to continue using it all on a deal or two and then wait for those to close to move onto a new deal. 

That's a more precarious hire than ever before, you won't have another agent on the other side of the deal that's really on the same side trying to make things close.

I’m supposed to start close to home, but Denver is a brutal market at the moment.

He teaches how to find the deals, close on them, and also brings deals to the group so you can get started as you learn. 

I'm 25 and just closed on my 2nd property that I will be owner occupying / house hacking and moving out of my current house hack to rent out to a family/tenant.

We signed closing docs over 2 weeks ago and FMC has ghosted.

I have $18,000 saved to use for a down payment and closing costs.

However, If you use a bank, plan on a down payment of 20%, that's $80,000 down plus about $5,000 in loan fees and $3500 in closing costs.

There are a lot of wholesalers who are buying lists of properties in foreclosure / default and do not realize this in many states is considered predatory.As taxes and insurance increase along with homeowners having equity, states will start to catch on to this and my guess is start going after more of these wholesalers.It will be an easy win for them as most wholesalers act as brokers illegally (do not do double close) and do not let the homeowner know all the options available to them (modifications/ bankruptcy), they are out to solely benefit in their behalf which in itself is predatory

They chose to sell FSBO with a flat-fee MLS listing service, and ended up closing at $1.6M, 6 months later.