Do you have a service or website you prefer to handle direct mail?

BiggerPockets or LinkedIn can also help you connect with like-minded individuals. 

You have a far better chance trying to sell to an individual than targeting hedge funds.

I currently have around 100k tied up in sticks right now which I would prefer to leave in and just continue to save with the plan of getting a place in the next few years, I would get a second job to raise the funds.

This consist of having a good agent preferably one that works with and has investor experience.

Sharma, From my perspective I prefer to run my own fix and flips.

@Avani PatelFor my flipping business, I prefer to use fewer software programs to streamline things.

The idea is to convert a multi-family building into condos; but not in the traditional sense where you separate pre-existing apartments into their own condos; but in a way where you combine the common areas of all of the apartments in that whole building, and turn the individual rooms within those apartments into condos themselves; thus transforming the hallways, kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, porches, balconies into common areas of the condos. 

We would prefer to jump into the market with a duplex, triplex or quad as our first purchase. 

I've gotten deals and formed partnerships through some very unorthodox connections over the years.To answer your question, it will always depend on the specifics of the deal in front of me but in general I'd still prefer value-add.