You are going to own the property for awhile and getting into a mediocre deal makes it harder to get out of it when the better deal inevitably passes under your nose shortly thereafter.Best of luck with your investing.Ryan

I was running at a pace of adding exactly one house a month over the past 3 years (36 on the nose from 1/14 to 12/16).  

They are very well networked; they know who wants to buy what, and where; and they close so many deals monthly (some daily) that you wouldn't believe it.These deals rarely fall apart because the wholesaler can't find an end buyer... they fall apart because the seller is way upside down with judgment liens, water liens or huge tax sale payoffs.Every time I come to a wholesaler thread, there you are thumbing your nose at investors who use this method to make serious cash.

@Marno Fourie - IMO, the post by @Jason Malyon and the 2nd paragraph by @Charl Ellis pretty much hit it on the nose.

They want results, and you've got to have the nose for it.

At least Arizona has jobs other than hospitality and entertainment that tend to nose dive when people have to pinch pennies.

The allure of out-of-state deals can sometimes overshadow opportunities right under our noses.

I'm hard-nosed about it.

They want to wake up work a 9-5 come home and do it all over till they are told they can retire and they look at business owners with a turned up nose thinking they are just greedy.

Market nose-bleed levels are a challenge, but I came to realization that timing the market is near impossible, and a wrong approach.