We literally sat on this house for a year, then we realized Texas wasn't where we wanted to live and we sold.

If you can literally pick anywhere make sure it is a city you don't mind living in.

I've talked to literally a few thousand prospective investors and find that many of them have a similar story to your.

The cost benefit on my modeling cost segs is literally often like 15 to 1 or better.  

There are literally tens of thousands, maybe millions, of wanna-be investors on BiggerPockets that think they'll get rich if they just read some books and listen to podcasts.

There is literally nothing that a wholesaler can do that a competent Realtor cannot, including finding a buyer who is "all cash, quick close".There is an entire industry built up around teaching people to wholesale illegally. 

Paying time and materials, you are literally paying them by the hour for the work.

If you used a price per sf, you are about $30k+ off on your numbers.There are books and literally thousands of threads here with this very same question and a few good answers.  

Im sure they will get a lot of clicks and will be able to get some good google PPC money on the article.But there is literally contradictory statements in the article headline.

I had one of the latter in Idaho that was extremely thorough and after shimmying into a tiny crawlspace found the sub-floor was rotten and literally crumbling in some places.