These are multi million dollar operations that were spawned out of MLM  program of decades past. 

Because seriously it's not that hard to understand what Wholesaling is, but all these people are repeating and saying the same things and it's been the same information for decades.

When we look to the 70s the stock market crashed 50% in nominal terms with high rates of inflation throughout the decade.

Applicants credit score is around 550, but does make 3x rent from a very large company for the past decade.

The stock market has experienced 6 different decade-long periods of low or no returns in the past 100 years.

Like you I have decades of experience being a lender and borrowing from all sorts of HML banks and private individuals.

Turned out to be what was left from rats living in the attic from what must have been decades ago.Rat hair, dirt, feces. 

I'm starting to learn about creative financing strategies and it seems like this might be normalized among sellers in the next few decades.

And unless you're fine with just parking your money with little to no return for the next decade, look into something else.

And by end of these 4/5yrs, your a full electrician, earning 6 figures, with a BA in business, with performing rental real estate, the knowledge of how to actually run a business, and set on a DEBT FREE foundation a decade or two ahead of all your classmates just graduating from xyz university with a major in beer-pong and a degree they probably won't use but may make as much as half, maybe a 1/3 of what your already earning.