LOL.. if you cant do the deal with your local HM lender and partner you meet at a reia and that you know you have no business doing this until you can. ( not you specifically the public)also if you look at the laundry list of requirements to get funded MOST cant and wont be able to accomplish that.. so they get denied right there and the \3 to 5k is gonzo.... who gets 3 contractors to bid on projects these days.. the deal wont wait around for that stuff unless your in a very cold market.

@Omri AvitalIf you used to be a wholesaler and have experience finding off-market deals keep hitting the pavement either cold calling or sending direct mail till you find a deal that works.

On cold days like this, we sure miss Benny's though! 

It's a cold world.

I am an agent but I mentor many wholesalers who cold-call.

If you're willing to put the time, strategies like cold call, direct mail, door knock, PPC, social media might be worthwhile.

Instantly I can tell the hottest markets from the normal and cold ones, and separately determine which one's I am priced out of due to crazy high values.I'd suggest a similar value-based approach if you have the data to calculate on to identify a few markets to start looking for deals in, but remember this is still too broad of analysis to make a go/no-go decision on the projects you find.

Just saying..Mistakes is part of this journey some more than others, what you do with mistakes is up to you - learn to be better with costly mistakes rather than get the right education first  or be bitter(many end up here, jaded because of misplaced righteousness and own undoing)?

New Hampshire grows Norm from "This old House"New Hampshire has winter and cold beaches and Florida, well, doesn't.I have a long weekend to travel from Arizona and I flip a coin: heads it's Florida, tails it's Florida.

I also invest locally here in Columbus and Dayton and have been cold-calling a ton of commercial locations for my investors.