At this time flipping will be even more time sensitive than normal and new players to the game will suffer.

What other players should I include in this process? 

Really looking for a team player, as I am serious about purchasing multiple properties / asset types, and working with one person/team for the long-term. 

Those cash buyers do NOT buy via real estate agents, because real estate brokers don't have the distressed properties for sale in the MLS, because these properties are being found, "brokered", purchased, and rehabbed completely outside of the world the RE agents/brokers live in.And perhaps my biggest point is this:  The big players that are licensing our WeBuyHouses.com brand are almost all broker/agents AND investors, and those guys wholesale deals to cash buyers.  

.:)Perspective - the one thing that separates one-hit wonders from the prolific players.

I spend a lot of time getting to know and maintaining relationships with all the area players.

at least for IndianapolisWe sell to a really big player in town and out of the 25 properties we have sold them in the last year maybe one or two were over $30,000.  

Vet all the players, but especially the on the ground provider and property manager.

IE represented the B ball player and us. had great reporte' with Wells.. who we cramed down.. we could not have done the deal without her help.fast forward.. we bought it for 1.7mil.. put 1.3 million in it.. and she sold it to a buyer she had in the wings for 5mil the day it hit the market.. . so for her she made 6 points on the 1.7 mil sale to us.. she was instrumental in working with our designer throughout the whole process.. and then we paid her 3 points to sell it to her buyer.. so on that one transaction she made about 550k.. in commissions. it was 12 months start to finish. 

After while you will find out who the real players are.