In addition I have 3 of the best off shore providers in my camp as well.So there you go no mystery to this.. and other than the big cash out when folks bought the properties the business is really quite simple.. buy a bombed out foreclosure that an investor walked away from because PM was cruddy.

If that's not near extortion Im not sure what is - not to mention mysterious charges that showed up on my bank account this week by her.  

For many investors, finding and securing financing remains a frustrating mystery full of rejection and dead-end conversations.How I’ve managed to overcome this successfully overtime is what I call the enthuse, inform, educate framework.

For some of these communities, I was able to find negative reviews online that made the reason for low prices apparent, but others still seem mysteriously not selling. 

those have always been mysteries to me ... but when I talk to some folks that say they are in a mastermind group..

well a lot of them failed during the last GFC... especially in hard hit areas of PHX  Vegas FLA central CA  FLAand around atlanta.. no mystery not everyone is a good operator.. and or they get into the deals very thin on capital as the sponsor. or its there first one and have no real experince.. especially in bad times.. then you have garden variety greed..

That area now needs new subfloor ( thus why the floors aren't done) and then we mysteriously has a short in the previously fine electrical and he says we need a whole new breaker box. 

I get that... but I suspect that's far and few between as your close ratio with sellers would be pretty low if that's your only approach.The more common approach is Hey I am going to buy this subject to my partners approval.. little white lie, as there is no partner the wholesaler is alluding to some mystery person when in fact if they can't resell or assign they just say their partner nixed the deal..  

Court is a mysterious place for many.

Mysteriously each time I bid, it would jump $75k+  from one bidder bidding up to the "reserve" price.