If you don't have previous build experience I would tackle something smaller and knock that out of the park and then move up until you can take down such a project.Best of luck 

Each property I aim to tackle something new to learn as much as I can and get a good foundation.

To NOT look like spam.

You always are on the hunt for properties, and you always are on the hunt for new buyers.What REALLY is just moronic.. is wait to find properties  (or buyers) till you have a buyer (or a property).Just as it is "absurd" to you to get a property first... so is it "absurd" to a buyer, for a wholesaler to contact them and "waste " their time with being spammed  without any indication if said wholesaler is at all serious.

How many spam calls/sms do you get offering to renew y9our auto warrantee?   

I agree that if you want to make a deal doing DMM that this is the way you have to tackle it.But this advice is similar to, "if you want to catch a chicken keep running after it... one day you are bound to catch it".

We have the good fortune of too much off market deal flow and not enough time to tackle all of the projects we wish we could.

I had a guy the other day with a less than 600 credit score and $5000 of net worth that wanted to tackle an $800k+ property. 

(I'm secretly jealous that you have all the GC skills because that's what steers me away from tackling projects like this, ha ha.) 

So the fact that I completed the flip despite a lot going not as planned IS a success in my book.Then instead of just bragging about it I decided to do a complete write up from how we got the lead to how we tackled the flip in full excruciating detail, so others newbies and seasoned investors can learn , get inspired and do, with somewhat of a guide to hold their hand.So it really boils down to what YOU consider the success.