From personal experience, MLS deals are much less lucrative given their higher price points (typically).With respect to financing, you can talk to any of the hard money lenders on this site for different financing programs they offer (some are tighter with someone who has not yet executed a flip), you can take equity out on existing properties you have, you can use private loan from a friend or relative.

Tried a few but they are far from reliable...in a sense that if I am not on site things go sideways, or even no activity and completely missing for days. 

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

While of course there can be exceptions in any of the cities I would rank them in order of price range, Prosper most expensive, probably $1mil and up, then Frisco, then Celina and then Little Elm where you might be able to get in for $350,000 or slightly less.

To qualify, an investment club:must not make, nor propose to make, a public offering of its securities; andmust not have more than 100 members.A public web site or other public communication that could be viewed as suggesting that a club is looking for new members might be considered a public offering.

Here are some options for the electrical:Can a propane truck get to the site?

Have you stopped at job sites where they are doing a renovation to see if the boss was there?

We are looking for reliable sites and resources that can assist us in finding these properties.

Get the contractors to bid the job before closing and also make sure if they are recommended by someone else you go see their job sites and their progress on projects that they are doing!

You can also set up a direct booking site via iGMS.