@Richard Grubb is this your first property??  

I know there are snakes, but there are just as many, if not more, good, professional, and diligent agents who want to help their investor clients succeed wildly.  

Also everything on Hatteras is dated and needs more reno than turnkey cabins, but even houses that look condemned have 100% peak month occupancy which is wild.

Now I only have one seasonal job as a volunteer wild land firefighter.

The Wild Card is there is a city just across the border(Reynosa) of an additional million people.

No wild stories, but we were all better off!

I've heard stories as well of Sheriff Sales being like the wild wild west at times (the big players bidding up properties just to keep the new players out of contention) but haven't experienced anything like that first hand. 

It was wildly successful but I ran afoul of the HOA.

RealQuest is the source of data I've used to send out hundreds of thousands of offers and have been wildly successful.

The US seems to operate like the wild west where landlords do not bother to learn their specific regulations.