Having someone like that in your corner can save you from costly mistakes and speed up your learning curve.On the other hand, if you already have a firm grasp on the process, understand contracts, know how to analyze deals, and have your own relationships built out, then handling transactions yourself can make perfect sense.

First, I would focus more on transaction size than unit count.

I recently got my real estate license and have a good relationship with a broker who will sponsor my license, so I'm not worried about the real estate transaction piece of it. 

Not common, but for the right situation it works like a micro-bridge at the front end of the transaction.

Then facilitating the transaction so that it closes with no funny business.

The city is making them demolish the second “unit” because it crossed the line into an illegal ADU.

Lending is not really a RE brokerage activity, so don't rely on brokerage services to cross the river into financial services. 

In DFW, a lot of wholesalers build their buyer lists from recently closed cash transactions and local investor meetups.

I’ve seen wholesalers earn a 2.5% commission on a transaction and then charge a 10–20k assignment fee on top of that commission.

that's for a few reasons - one is that it just costs money to transact in the form of closing costs, which can be substantial; two is that the first few years of ownership are typically a stabilization period, in which the owner is putting money into the property; and a third is that interest rates remain high, making cash flow more challenging anywhere.calculations that show you "cash flow" in the first month or year or even first few years just ignore all of this and pretend that any proceeds over the mortgage are cash flow, when they aren't.i say this not to discourage you but because we see so many posts in the forums from folks in HCOL areas like CA whose expectations are not properly set.