The challenge I had was that I didn't know the MSA well enough before hand, and didn't feel comfortable being a good enough judge if the area or specific neighborhoods would rebound.

You, however, get to decide after you determine that is how they price properties whether an individual deal is good enough based on the value provided by that company for you to buy.  

Is there no line and I should just do my very best, and if that's not good enough just say I tried my best?

Yea me and my wife were pre approved anyways, so I'm Doing good enough anyways, plus I did my research and know that mostly any credit repair business at best does things you can do yourself and at worst will make things worse or just cost you a bunch of money that you didn't need to spend.

The property was not in good enough shape to rent and I was working on the property after my dad moved out.

Definitely hard money is an option if you have a good enough deal.

Not only that, to have good enough contacts and relationships in so many markets to lock good enough spreads to wholesale would be a feat in itself.If you want to learn and do it right, learn the basics first.

The owner should be relatively unaffected by a break lease if all goes according to plan, and most times it does, if a good enough job is done on the front end screening.Any seasoned PM knows that if they do a very thorough job screening in the front end, it does wonders for minimizing risk and making for a smooth lease term.

I was lucky -- my timing was good enough (I started in 2008) that I could learn from their (and your) lessons without losing lots of money myself.  

What happened to GOD (Kiing James).So much for a sure thing, he was not even good enough to get to the Kobe series and he forgot to shake everyone's hand after he lost.