Finding off market deals.... wholesalers?

[Jordan A.]

My business partner and I have been searching for our first deal using an agent and searching the MLS ourselves. We have had some luck finding leads and analyzed quite a few from afar, but want to maximize our efforts. Most of the houses we are finding on the MLS are priced too high for the numbers to work on a fix/flip. Are most investors using wholesalers to find off-market deals? We have done some searching ourselves and started sending out letters to generate leads, but we're curious if using a wholesaler would be a better option. We understand we are going to have to analyze quite a few properties before we land on one that will work, so we want to get our eyes on as many deals as possible.