I've  seen Finance Cowboy's (Jaren Sustar's) videos in my Instagram news feed and watched a couple of his YouTube videos.

Very true, you make your money when you buy and that formula is dependent upon your search abilities, how big of a net you cast to find opportunities, your negotiating skills, your ability to identify great locations (often near good schools), and your ability to transform the property.

My advice to people Who are interested in this automation is to get one or two assignment wholesaling deals under your belt or at least five to $10,000 of profitable flips before joining that being said it will give you disposable income to throw in invest into a system in which you can market however if you haven’t made not even one deal at least get one under your belt through you know Facebook channels YouTube craigslist your local tax liens whatever you can do at least get one even if you have to co Wholesale with somebody Truth to the matter is people are in constant search for that get rich quick automation tool where they could have little or no experience and just generate money and that is entirely possible however you need to perfect the craft of marketing or hire somebody who can.

Would love to see Youtube videos from agents articulating to buyers on how to negotiate their fee percentages lower.

Search BiggerPockets for Dave Meyers, or watch some of his videos on YouTube.

I couldn’t find it in their website, but I do like their zip code videos on YouTube. 

It's a hard model to scaleVery similar to having a business on Youtube generating ad revenue.  

You can also get a lot of information from YouTube, but be careful to cross-check their information.

The amount of new apartments buildings I have seen go up within the last 2 years and the transformation that my own neighborhood has gone through in the last 3 years has been a rapid change in my opinion.

I'd suggest if you can't drive the neighborhoods, you go to youtube and type in "Driving the hood in Columbus" or something similar.