It's the area where emotional intelligence excels over artificial intelligence.The cumulative result of these consumer preferences and algorithmic pricing is that the consumers willing to sell to Zillow were those with the least desirable homes.

I am not 100% positive on that answer so I was not able to speak intelligently on the topic.

But it requires more intelligence, more hard work, and more risk to the investor than filling out a loan application.

Profit is income.A lender is looking for how much money you have to pay a mortgage payment each month so looking at your revenue would not be an intelligent way to evaluate the situation because you could have lots of expenses and some businesses actually lose money. 

I know the intelligent investors here can help me far more than any internet search.  

The Intelligent Investor is a great book for investing overall as well, it is less real estate focused and more macro level.

Take some time to learn and understand how the process works specifically in your state so that you can speak intelligently to potential sellers and talk to them about their options.

Lawyers and others can all add up so check out how others have put together videos and reg CF pages I recommend you start small first so you get everything set up under a smaller CF regulation before spending Big on a Reg A or Reg D corp. here's MSB.AI an artificial Intelligence company I've helped with for the last two years.

You must be very intelligent and investing saavy.

Extremely intelligent and from a very wealthy, politically connected family in Texas.