Many in my generation are fearful of home buying until they are making big bucks because they lack knowledge and confidence with regard to basic home maintenance!

Basically where I go is..

As a medical student, in a little more than a year, I'll basically get sent to whatever hospital here in the Midwest(most likely not in a "hot" location) that will accept me.

@Mark Allen,You can also assign a sub to contract - basically wholesale it to someone who has experience doing sub to deals.  

Ok, now that you have taken your initial step, below are some quick links to get engaged.I take it that you are interested in wholesaling, but, lack the basics.

I have 3 agents (different companies) that work for me (sending me new listings, basically).  

If so, as a RE investor, aside from the main classes of the RE principles and practice, the program gives us a choice to chose one of these elective classes: Real Estate Finance (2011-04)Real Estate Appraisal (2383-06)Real Estate Economics (3228-10)Property Management (3008-08)Legal Aspects of Real Estate (3192-10)Real Estate Office Administration (3166-09)Escrows (1670-97)As an investor who only wants to sale properties that are my own, what class do you think will be more beneficial to me?

NYC has done pretty well for itself and the Bay certainly has a possibility to end up like that, but one could also argue that the Bay and even SF in general has a lot more to do to make transportation as efficient as over there.I'm kind of rambling and going off topic, but basically I guess what I'm trying to say is: a seller's market does not guarantee that the price will go down any time soon, nor does it guarantee that price wouldn't crash any time soon.  

I've got the basics down on how a wholesaling deal works but I have a few questions on the steps before even marketing to find the deals. 

I'm familiar with the basics of FHA loans in regards to investments properties, but wanted to know how easy or difficult it would be to fund a 2nd property in the same year or the next following year.