Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

He uses poorly thought through methods, I've listened to his "methods",  Thus, he has the high amount of  Due On Sale called in a short period of time. 

@Chris Morris have ALWAYS seen bad "deals" from rookie wholesalers that really don't understand what they are doing to provide value to the industry.It's getting worse because the real estate market has recovered from the 2010 Crash, yet many are still using tactics & methods developed during this time.Everyone in the industry needs to go back and look at what was being done BEFORE 2010 and start using those methods, updating them with current technology.

My method has always been to call every listing that hit 90 days on market in areas that I want to buy.

Also, not very easy to use typical methods of valuation like comparable sales - there is no public tax assessor's website that you can just freely grab this from. 

This depends on if you are using the Cash or Accrual method of accounting for tax purposes.

House hacking is the best tried-and-true method for new investors in my opinion.

I've been using the BRRRR method more recently with some success.

I have used this method in the past and 90% of time has worked, perhaps I was just lucky, I'm not an attorney but based my thoughts on common sense and what I have read. 

Probably going to be a check.Smart contractors are starting to understand that convenience matters to customers and being able to take different methods of payment can help them collect their money.