I'm super stressed and feeling a bit desperate right now. 

Or have investors lost their mind because they are so desperate for yield that they buy anything called “turnkey” and assume it’s a good deal? 

I guess it's possible to find that diamond in the rough off market with a very desperate seller but nothing that you can build a real strategy around. 

It probably depends on how desperate people are and what the supply of properties is in your area.The other concern about charging money is it creates expectation.

The home looked like it hadn't been cleaned in months, which would explain any illness her children were experiencing (we still never received any letter from a doctor confirming her son's asthma).As it turned out, the tenant was in desperate need of money and made up the mold claim.

For every handful of angry sellers, there's one that desperately needs help, as investors we provide our services to them.

Sellers who are uneducated or desperate enough to take extraordinary low EMD's are who you should be targeting. 

Does it take a desperate buyer and a limited supply of inventory in order to compel someone to do this?

Any agent who will do this is likely desperate for business, and thus an agent not worth working with

If you want I can send you the spreadsheets where exported all the MFH (yes I went to multis because I was that desperate for cash flow) to excel and underwrote the expected cash flow.