Quote from @JD Martin: I think it's a bigger problem now that we have social media.

There are some turnkey providers that are vertically integrated that might be of interest to you if you want to invest passively.

If you have an integrated account and receive the inquiry from VRBO, but then book the guest off platform they double their commission rate to 10%. 

The good wholesalers will have experience, knowledge (provide accurate ARV estimates or at least close), integrity in putting together win-win transactions, and a list of actual real cash buyers ready to buy (or capital/ capital partners to close on the property themselves if they can't find a buyer), so that the seller isn't left in the lurch and harmed by having their property locked up by someone who doesn't actually have any buyers or a clue on how to sell the property, or any money to buy it.

They are even featured in articles, have been profiled and interviewed in the local media outlets, look really good online etc. and have a reputation around town as being highly successful because they have been busy buying a lot of units and making themselves look successful even while doing what I would consider very bad deals.It's smoke and mirrors. 

I have talked to a lot of different ones and have found one that I really like because they have been doing it for twenty years and have vertically integrated property management and construction and a construction warehouse for fixes and everyone is on-staff.

Please reach out for details or follow us on social media, we post the events there as well as meetup .  

As I'm new to Section 8, just trying to understand how it actually works, versus what we see on social media :) Lesson #1 - Nothing the government does makes sense and none of the employees have any idea what they are doing.

I'm an IT Consulting guy by day & RE investor by night so getting into the details of all of the technology offerings, how they integrate, which capabilities overlap/don't, where integrated value sits, etc. exposes my nerdiness/love for this kind of stuff.

If you have limited funds, how are you going to flip the worst properties out there that cost the most and are the hardest to flip.I know social media makes it looks like no-money and low-money down investing is feasible, but probably 95 percent of the deals that are done like that are done by people with money because it's the leverage money gives them to make a deal like that to the benefit of the seller.Don't rush to get a third property that needs work on your ledger when your funds are already limited.