Many of us have spent countelss hours in weekend bootcamps, countless dollars on education courses AND countelss profits lost on costly mistakes.

I understand I can learn on BP from countless of successful people on here, but its impossible for me to gain "hands-on-experience" through a computer screen.

:-\I just kick myself when I think about all of the thousands that I and countless others could have saved when I realized that just about everything I've ever heard from a guru, I've heard here on BP for free (or $15, which is almost free anyway.)Everytime I meet someone at a REIA, one of the first questions I ask them is, "Are you on Bigger Pockets?".

I'll go ahead and jump on the @J Scott bandwagon for countless reasons.

There are a lot of companies around the nation that source property, demographic, bankruptcy, foreclosure and other data, like The Warren Group, LPS/Black Knight, Experian, Equifax, Axciom, First American, and COUNTLESS others including many smaller regional specialists that have built specific areas of expertise, and which offer great services at various price points, and with various areas of focus.Do companies buy from each other rather than do it all themselves when it is cost effective, and the data is usable - you bet.

But here on BiggerPockets and on countless podcasts and YouTube videos there are testimonials and accounts of people who have done it.

What I've digested is that wholesaling is indeed HARD WORK and you're going to have to grind and put in the countless hours to find deals and motivated sellers to get those contracts.

Even if no leads come in; we always get calls, as mailers always anger some people and we always get countless calls asking for us to remove them from our mailing list. 

You don't have time to play around with rehabs, home inspectors, countless FHA re-inspections, failed appraisals and the like.

Buyers can go on zillow, trulia, or any countless other site and know true values and be more educated than the broker.This is what happens when there is market disruption.