Network with local investors or wholesalers for off-market deals.2.

It has been very helpful and is the major focus of our business right now.Our profile is pretty blank because we stay quite busy...but we have been running a large Real Estate Mastermind group in the Kansas City area for almost 5 years every week on wednesdays...we are landlords, flippers, wholesalers, as well as in the note business.

Sometimes those relationships can be with someone who buys off-market, but the best wholesalers are not wholesalers to start with.

Wholesalers dedicate significant time, efforts, and resources towards finding deals that meet that criteria. 

Best thing would be to get started hustling for another wholesaler to see if it really is what you think it is.The only way to be a good wholesaler is to build relationships with sellers, know repair costs and ARV, and understand that each seller has a problem to solve and do not need a cash offer.

It's also worth mentioning that I already have a good relationship with a wholesaler in town who knows other good contacts, and I am able to use some of these contacts as good resources for general knowledge and learning how it all works.I recently had to close my business of 9 years, and so instead of getting a W2 job or start some other "normal" business, I'd much rather prefer to have house flipping be my primary source of income. 

@Roy Loganeither1. your own direct marketing to property owners, or 2. through someone else (a wholesaler, another investor, your network, your uncle's neighbor who wants to sell their house and doesn't want to list it and tells your uncle)

I see people talking about getting on Wholesaler list.

Wholesale gurus are so funny.

If it expires and you don’t close because of wholesaler you get it back