Sorry if it's a crap shoot, I'm still trying to figure the in's and out's here. 

My years there I was never able to make rentals work worth a crap and as I understand it has only gotten worse in the last few years

Hi everyone,I'm getting ready to start a direct mail campaign to apartment owners.My goal is to purchase at least 10 doors in the next 12 months, and wholesale any other deals that don't quite fit what I am looking for.I'm planning on targeting some smaller markets in states that I think may receive less attention.Does BP have a tutorial on the best way to start this?

@Charles Wiegert, the numbers you find on Loopnet (and pretty much anywhere else) are crap until proven otherwise.

@Jay Orlauski,Cheers, no problem.One big take-away for me was also that the owners of the real estate stood to make a crap ton more than the sub-letters, overall.And also that wholesaling isn't really the best low-barrier-to-entry way to get into REI any more.

Most "Guru's " are full of crap and claim to have a secret to REI, but the truth is, that there is no secret.

If you read that 100 pages of crap, it can be summarized as "I'm going to do x, y, z, a, b, and c, or pay you off in full."

A savvy buy and hold person would pick up something like that in a heartbeat and either stick a sec 8 renter in it or put it up for lease w/purchase option and cashflow the crap out of it.I know the entire west and south sides pretty well since I grew up here and still live in South Phoenix.  

Anything is fine if you want to reduce costs temporarily but Wix websites look like crap and may not be properly responsive (mobile-friendly), if at all. 

And so on those threads some of the top names in the industry chimed in and called bull crap on his stuff