You'll usually find a table full of gray haired guys talking shop with him. 

As a true wholesaler, how do you bring value to the table if you didn't perform these tasks and how did you ever come up with your offer price if you didn't do this!!

Know of an efficient way to identify hard money lenders that will solely focus on an 80K loan against a property purchased at $256K with me bringing the rest of money to the closing table?

What are you bringing to the table. 

That is, unless investors are now willing to pay more than the 1% rule used to dictate.I know it will cost some time and money to get them vacant and fixed up, but the alternative seems to be to leave 10s of thousands of dollars on the table.

This is known as “speculating,” and it isn’t much better than getting in your car, driving to Vegas, and betting all your money at the poker table.

That means you need to bring another 40k to the table at the refi cause you'll have a bridge loan of 240k to payoff.Now you'll own a 320k house with 80k equity in it making 150 cash/month.You wanna look for better deal spreads. 

The seller never brought funds to the table.

I suspect for Cody and his partner to get to the closing table

It does not take too many months of missing out on a savings of 514 to realize that PPP was HUGELY expense in actual 16,000 or savings you had to leave on the table.