My experience here in SW Michigan is this:- there are no true wholesalers in this area that produce enough volume that they can be considered a real source- if you want deals you'll need to market for them yourself; the others are keeping their leads to maintain their own business- I've heard from a few pretenders claiming they're wholesaling- make sure you check up on their claims, see if the properties are already listed, etc. 

Other than that, any solution would involve pretending to be someone other than the owner, which is generally frowned upon.I agree that transfer tax @ 4% of fair market value is ridiculous.

HUDstore.com is NOT HUD's website, that's a pretender site.HUDhomestore.com is HUD's website.

Let's pretend our house is worth 250k, when we move, we should be looking for $5,000/mo?

Let's pretend I have acquired 10 mixed real estate investments, single family and possibly duplexes or triplexes.

The scammer is pretending to be an out-of-state owner that can only take payments long distance.  

We will pretend that I'm buying it for 100k-10k down...so 90k.

., craigslist, driving around) and call pretending to be a tenant.You can try loopnet, especially if you mean a larger building or complex.  

Personally, I have a fine tuned BS meter, reading and following posts on BP long enough will show who the real players are and who the pretenders are.

Acting as the middle man on a property you do not own, but pretend to own, without even notifying the real owner?