The best market throughout the US with the lowest active management costs, trending upwards for employment and population growth, low property taxes and insurance and high rent by ratio with high cap rate would have to be Jacksonville, FL. you can pm me for more info..

I think they are a waste of time for actually finding a buyer for that house, but great for the agent drumming up business, and if you are a branded fix and flip company to generate brand/market exposure that you really do buy houses and fix them up nice.All that said, I happened to sell that house on my first, and only open house to a couple who were just starting to look in the area, but had an agent.  

@Fay Chen If either of your parents will have earned income from self-employment, they may be eligible for a Solo 401k plan.

But I am just curious to find out where are investors and wholesaler generating most of there deals from. 

If your only objective is to generate a small amount of passive income without having to invest a lot of $$$ yourself, there are creative ways to do this across almost any investment strategy.

I won't have much saved, but we will be receiving 3k a month from the GI Bill until we can find  some part time employment, then that 3k will be additional.

My goal is to make a full transition as an investor by the end of the year starting with cash-generating strategies like wholesaling and option contracts but being a big picture person I'd like to later transition to larger projects.  

This is also one of the many reasons why you don't see the common man significantly involved in RE in Europe trying to generate any wealth worth mentioning.

The Naval Bases and Navy Shipyard are the big employers followed by academia (the colleges and local school districts).

Like I said earlier, I haven't read the Ultimate Beginner's guide or any other books on Real Estate just yet, but I have been listening to the BP Podcast in order from episode 1 (I think I just listened to episode 40) while also listening to the show they put out weekly.The area of Real Estate that most interests me is the idea of using House Hacking to learn how to buy, hold, and manage small multifamily properties (starting with Duplexes) to generate passive streams of cash flow, with the goal being to eventually stop having to work a W2 job and live comfortably off of the cash flow my rental properties produce.