You might have to change strategies, look for off-market or value add deals, look in different sub-markets 2 hours away, wait for that occasional gem to hit the MLS and move on it immediately, etc. 

I’m wondering if it’s worthwhile to upgrade to something like the ply gem pro serious for 1300 more dollars or if I should save that money.

@Giovanni Isaksen : Thanks for the encouragement.

No hidden gems if you know what I mean.  

But the real key to this market is knowing how and what it will take to make a problem property into a gem.

Most of what comes through is garbage, but you get an occasional gem. 

Anything out there with real gems?

Another person on BP who is a font of good info is @Giovanni Isaksen , perhaps he will chime in.

@Stephen Daniel Pace    There can be opportunities, but it is a fair amount of work weeding thru the properties to find the gems from the trash. 

From that I became pretty good at filtering inbound requests. 95% of advice I got was pretty worthless, but 5% were absolute gems.