There're a couple in Newark and JC worth checking out.2) research and look for deals via direct mailing and other creative ways such as bird-dogging and/or cold calling.

It's important to figure out what your business strategy is, and what your value-add proposition is.I know that folks have been successful in each one of these niches in Philly real estate, just depends on what you are looking to do (in no particular order and just off the top of my head, I'm sure that I'm leaving a bunch out): low-income rentals, luxury rentals, flips, vacant land speculation, new construction, section 8/PHA rentals, wholesaling, wholetailing, bird dogging, turn key sales, property management, construction management, financing expert, zoning expert, title expert, business procedure consulting, hard money lending, seller financing, buying subject-to, syndicating deals, 1031 exchange scout, retail sales, etc.Personally, I've set up a pretty decent rental portfolio over the last few years, that's what made sense for my investing goals and setup. 

Is this Seller just taking my potential bird dog commission?

Hi Zach,You can either cold call lists that you purchase or leads that are generated through D4D (if you can find a property scout/bird dog situation), hire someone to place signs for you.

So, I am trying to bird-dog or get an internship with an experienced wholesaler to get as much experience done as I can.

AC companies said the prices increased due to tariffs.

I am willing to do some Bird Dogging to get my feet wet.

There are so many stories I hear from the bird dogs without a RE license I deal with in Georgia where sellers need to sell their homes fast, and I can tell you that it won’t be the regular residential buyer looking for the right home.

Be a bird dog instead.

The rarer bird on this forum is the investor who has chosen to be on the finance side, almost exclusively.