Now, with me being back I'm returning to my original plan of wanting to house hack in the Greater Boston Area.

This sounds like a solid return!

Depending on how upscale your finishes really were, you could have that built in this market for 300 to 325 per square foot fairly easily right now.

Not what we are looking to do and all the MLS listings just don't pan out numbers wise so far.That's awesome that you got some returns on flips and found some buy & holds recently. 

Im at base pay since I Just started, top pay at this job is at 5 years and we make 100k base pay, there are guys easily clearing 160k due to OT and other extra money functions. we also have a lot of opportunity to move up in position, Supervisors clear 230k like nothing so right now I'm not making much but long term this is one of the best city jobs to work.

The number of calls you make, are only important if you are guaranteed a specific dollar in return per call. 

But the above statement is easily used generically for any market. 

@Erlson Neba Much less stress and headaches than rentals especially for lower end areas where the ongoing maintenance will most likely diminish any return you may hope to make and where appreciation cannot be expected.

I'd like to not "find out the hard way" if one of these sites are not a good match for me.The ones I'm considering are Propstream, Property Radar, ListSource, and PropwireSomething to note, I am looking to return to doing some wholesale deals, using criteria such as absentee owner, out of state owner, tax delinquent, vacant, liens, and pre-foreclosure..

Remaining money (less title fees) in escrow is returned to wholesaler (less PML funds and fee if used) with the remaining from the Step B contract.