Newbie Wholesaler - RE Investor vs Marketer

[Tish Thorpe]

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to this website and to real estate investing/marketing in general. I've spent a good amount of time pouring through this site and other manuals, seminars, and mentor trainings. I'd like to go ahead and get started with marketing for wholesale deals. I'm finding that many advise to use bandit signs, which I just found out are illegal. I also find a lot of mentors advise using squeeze pages to capture leads, and these really seem a bit shady to me.

My question: What's the downsdie to marketing yourself as a real estate marketer for wholesale deals? I'm imagining marketing to distressed or otherwise motivated sellers to help them find a buyer at no cost to them, so long as they agree to contract with me for my price for a certain period of time (couple weeks). If I were a home buyer, I'd like the idea of someone helping me find a home buyer, especially if I didn't need to pay them myself. Then I find a buyer, assign the contract, and close the deal.

Any feedback or suggestions?