The internet makes it easier than in the past decades.

While I understand that investing in marketing can increase deal flow and volume, I believe beginners should be able to start with smaller, low-risk (low hanging fruit) deals to gain initial experience without spending a thousands ($2,000+) each month in the beginning (on top of coaching).I also see lots of positive reviews on the internet about land flipping and wholesaling, however I'm curious if these people are actually calculating the marketing spend correctly and if the deals they're doing are actually profitable when taking that into consideration?

I have not because I don't usually have internet on site, but now I have an apartment building to manage, and potentially the scale makes it make sense to have internet for such a large building for locks/exterior cameras/monitoring, and with cell phone companies now providing internet, internet may be cheaper.   

We primarily buy notes, but we teach note creators how to create both solid and valuable notes.  

Dollywood is enjoying her moment in the social media spotlight with some big YT and TT creators visiting recently.

Utilities – Average monthly costs for electricity, water, gas, internet, etc.

Not published research, but based on my own experience: Cable+Internet: Cost is free and in fact you usually get a 20-30k bonus for using an exclusive service provider.

Where specifically do I learn how to make money doing this for free other than just the Internet?  

Try the paid version of GPT4 is orders of magnitude better than the previous version a few months ago. o3 has advanced reasoning, it basically prompts itself to do more research, you can watch it go through the thought process and research the internet live - a complex question may take a minute or 2, but the results are impressive.But you have to know how to write good prompts: the answer is only as intelligent as the question.

Information is all over the internet.