I too am in the early stages of building my Wholesaling pipeline.

Are you just handling it during this initial stage and then going to turn it over to them?

At this stage in the cycle, I'd stick with high occupancy properties.

I found a hard money lender that will finance 100% of purchase price and rehab cost up to 70% of ARV. the catch is that they wont pay for rehab until each stage is complete, so I'll have to pay contractors as they go, and then get paid back by the HML. and of course the fees are pretty outrageous. 

If not how would you negotiate on a house that is in some stage of foreclosure? 

My husband and I are in the prelim stage of looking in arrowhead and would like additional info on renting the prop when we are not using it. 

Cheap units don't have ecm blower motors and two stage gas gas valves. most of the big names also own other cheaper brands that are similar but with less bells and whistles. 

Sometimes I feel stuck in the "don't know what I don't know" stage.

How much downpayment are you going to pay at this stage?

A lot of newer investors can be taken aback by all the fees they see, but as long as you clearly and thoroughly explain the extensive research/work you did for each stage of the property acquisition, they will realize why the fees are introduced.