For me, and many others, this is not possible so another mitigation technique is to only buy great deals.

This technique allows the primary owner to retain about 80-85% of their profit while my services ask for around 15-20%.

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Also for future reference what’s your best technique/way to find properties without realtor involvement?

I have worked on some houses over the years that I am shocked that they have stood around this long, seeing some of the framing and the failures before they knew certain things we now know with modern building science and product/technique innovation.

Are there more convenient ways of making self management more hands off than this technique?

I suggest that you attend your local REIA meetups and find out what marketing technique the successful investors are using to get deals and then follow that.  

@Pete Abilla I like Ehsan Rishat's technique of using listsource but just know it is very city dependent.

Can anyone share their best techniques for ranking neighborhoods.

I realized that money is made when you have specialized knowledge and you implement that specialized knowledge creatively and diligently.Maybe the reason why you're struggling in doing a deal is because you don't know some of these techniques so you're entry and exit strategies are limited.Hope this helps and inspires you.If so, reply to this and if you have questions, let's have a discussion here.