To echo all of the above tips, the key ingredients to all of this is consistency. 

There are no tax benefits whether your account is labeled personal vs businessIdeally you want all your properties under their own llc.

What most of you are doing here on this thread, is finding the worst wholesalers, scammers and liars, and label THAT as "wholesaling" and then crapping on wholesaling assuming your own fabricated definition of wholesaling is true. 

Every investor wants/needs leads but white labeling other systems is not the idea I'm going for. 

However, it can prove fruitful for those investors that can take the heat of being labeled, plus there's decreased competition.  

This way it is not labeled a deposit in anyway and if they extend their lease (hopefully) for many years, you continue to make the fee as opposed to a one time deposit.

Before we used to each have a monthly $450/month out-of-pocket budget we’ve increased that to $750/month, mostly to buy better ingredients for meals.

It could take a little longer but, believe me you are not in a hurry because you are not going to get rich fast any way.Know for sure your success depends on "Marketing" to generate your own leads not others so called 'leads' that are pulled out of many websites using some scripts then labeled and categorized to you as motivated sellers for example when in fact they're not motivated at all.Real estate investing starts with marketing and you need the money for it.

For example, we label/assign all shelves in the fridge, pantry, and freezer.

I labeled it that way because that was the expectation that I got from my initial discussions, and it feels like that is what is presented on their website.