I love my profession, and I appreciate dentistry as a gateway to comprehensive well-being, but I'm ready to step out of the lifestyle of Poor Dad, and narrow down into my dream-- to become a successful wholesaler and a valuable resource for other players in the real-estate business. 

@Nghi Le Vestus  Fairplay Caliber  those are company's that are fully integrated with RE brokerage hard money lending and research and due diligence on each foreclosure.Drop bids certainly do happen not that frequently though.. and were very prevalent in  the AZ market.The organized bidding companies are stiff competition no doubt.Very tough to make money buying foreclosures in the major metro areas your up against the big money players. 

How many other players are there though in the league 5'11" right now?

https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8843/52438-wan...You can get a real estate or construction management degree, then get hired by the big players, make a lot of money from them, and then start on your own.

When you see a baseball player hitting .300 with 30 HR's and 120 RBIs vs .200 with 1HR and 10 RBI's, which one will stay in the big leagues?

How utterly amusing.Like any other business, REI is full of some of the smartest, competitive, well-connected and well-financed players in existence, who eat sleep and dream REI.You might just as easily 'dabble' in day trading, horse racing, Texas Hold-em or mixed martial arts.

As for non performing residential notes, well thats where most of the note players on BP play.  

With so many higher player!

I know there are many bigger players than me that probably did this with big tapes etc and made killings.

Move there and learn, get to know who the players are, and understand that area inside and out.