Their responses were all some variation of "this is how it is now." 

That might get you the least amount of room-to-room variation, without having to break the budget for a ton of new vinyl flooring.

Make sure your deals have enough wiggle room to account for variations in the market. 

There is a few out there who are backstabbers and thieves so watch out and be careful.One variation of that is called "reverse wholesaling" where you talk to buyers first and find out what they are looking for then go look. 

This is for the entire ConnectMLS coverage area, so while it's a heck of a lot more tailored than what the public is hearing on the news, it still smooths over a lot of variation from the countless markets within.

@Emanuel Monteiro it’s not exactly clear why you want to connect to an investor doing wholesaling in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, but my guess is that you want to do so as a source of off-market deals.If so, I would recommend 1) local real estate groups (they often meet at least monthly and have wholesalers of all experience levels), 2) check Craigslist to see who I see is posting “we buy houses” type ads, 3) call on “we buy houses” telephone pole (aka “bandit”) signs, and 4) Google “we buy houses yourtown” (and variations of that theme) and see who comes up.Keep in mind that a wholesaler’s main concern is “will this person CLOSE or are they going to back out at the last minute and leave me hanging?”

You would need to go though zoning requesting an administrative adjustment, variation or zoning change.  

I hear/read it a lot - "you must make a lot of offers and eventually you'll get a few accepted"....and different variations of this.First just a clarifying question - does this mean multiple offers in parallel or sequentially?

There are  definite block to block variations in Indy, so you need to ditch the zipcode analysis idea.

I found a 4plex in MPLS, MN that would cashflow $25-75.00 per month(depending on slight variations in the numbers I've ran(which I've ran 5 times)) with me living in one unit.