But you're in the industry, essentially buying in bulk, so you're going to get a better price than a random person.

If I were buying a non-turnkey property, just a random one, I would never buy without seeing it myself because there would be (to me) too many unknowns.

First of all I don't believe you should ever go up and give the newbie speech to random strangers you haven't made a connection with yet.

When you virtual wholesale (depending on your marketing), you will come across many random area leads.  

Random idea.  

One random idea would be to use your writing skills and start a blog (or do posts on BP) about your progress from now to when you close on your first property.

This way we can be sure the contractor is not putting random material for another job on our account2) We also make a photo copy of the license of every contractor we deal with so we know where they live.  

I chose 2 Bigger Pocket ones and the other I just chose at random.

Define "everyone"....are these real estate professionals or just random people?

My brother and cousin witness that random people are going in and out of the place.