Check out this great thread by Chris Piper at https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/862964-wholesaling-101-how-to-wholesale-for-beginnersI posted a link to it on my own recent thread, which you might also find useful, it has links to some of the resources I have checked recently https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1197244-how-to-do-wholesaling-right-in-maryland-east-coast-and-nationwidePiper's thread is where I started my research and am very grateful to this person for dedicating his time to share so much of a valuable information.

In fact the family and I are heading down towards Munster to start our feelers today as part of a road trip, heading further east until Valparaiso to look at all the local neighborhoods. 

I am looking to invest ideally south of North Miami (which includes Miami Shores / Biscayne Park), North of Coral Way (which includes Brickell / Downtown Miami) and East of Allapattah (which includes Wynwood and Midtown). 

The east side is enticing from a pricing perspective but it is extremely rough.I would also highly recommend adding Detroit to your list of potential markets.

Top TrackStreamline Hostaway (~$40-45)OwnerRez (cheap but doesn’t have Wheelhouse)Middle Hostfully (cheap)AirGMSBottom Hospitable (cheap) *although we rank this low, it is still a very good app.

If not, then ask that the boxes go in the middle of the room, so that the inspector has access to the walls (also if there is an active leak, the last thing you want is a bunch of cardboard boxes against the wall impeding air flow).An inspector will not move anything for the inspection and they will miss things because nothing is 100% no matter who does it. 

My wife and I are small-time real estate investors with lower middle class income.

Thanks for the info Nathan but this is for East Lansing.   

., WNC, east TN, etc.), especially Spring and Summer.

And unemployment is starting to tick up. seems like the MF market is in the middle of a big correction right now.. from the posts we see on BP from limited partners.