As Brandon Turner often says, I'm in the hunt for eventual financial freedom.My main investment option will be buy and hold properties with the immediate target being turnkey properties or units with minimal rehab costs. 

If your team is on the hunt for homes in Rochester we always have a few to move. 

If the title is clear & the buyer can't perform then the EMD is yours,...BUT be in the hunt for another buyer.

They will help in the analysis better than a plain agent, but it will cost something.Finding an agent that gives free off market deal hunting and property consulting services with no promise of compensation is the same as the wholesaler hunting for the "motivated seller" among pretty houses in expensive neighborhoods.

I am on the same hunt as well.

Also I wouldn't have to hunt/compete for a deal that I can get at 80% the ARV.Is anyone else doing this?

It is not putting something under contract, tying up the seller and then hunting for a buyer who would pay more that what you "promised" to pay.

Then you actually will get decent cash flow.Happy hunting! 

I've never understood why people refuse to consider the MLS when deal hunting.

I've been hunting in Daytona Beach for an STR since the start of the year.