Here's another plug for western NC: appreciation.

Those states have "income source" as a protected class and as far as I know are only the west coast (CA, OR, WA) and the new england area (MA, CT, VT, NJ ect) Account Closed  In most states you are not required to accept Sec 8, and as such if you choose not to you could deny processing an applicant that is using a voucher.

v=O_GRRivs-94) , found out about a lot of gurus that charge tens of thousands of dollars, went to seminars, met and spoke to people who were burned and decided not to pay anyone to get information that I can gather freely from various sources, including this one.Now I want to hear from successful wholesalers who are operating in current market (preferably in MD/East Coast, but also those who do wholesaling remotely in all states where there are motivated sellers and buyers): how did you start?

I would consider Western Wayne County (suburbs of Detroit). 

@Landon Bleau if you want to look a little farther south along the Lake Michigan coast I run the area from Grand Haven to Ludington.

I understand most East coast and mid west sellers and buyers insist on going to the closing office and sitting around a table..

property radar does this on the west coast .. not sure if they have gotten to the east coast yet.its a paid for subscription but its uber powerful with many many features and notice of defaults are one of them. 

East coast gets higher normally because of foreclosure risk.. not the risk of foreclosure per se but if you have to in some states it can take years.

Check out this great thread by Chris Piper at https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/862964-wholesaling-101-how-to-wholesale-for-beginnersI posted a link to it on my own recent thread, which you might also find useful, it has links to some of the resources I have checked recently https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1197244-how-to-do-wholesaling-right-in-maryland-east-coast-and-nationwidePiper's thread is where I started my research and am very grateful to this person for dedicating his time to share so much of a valuable information.

During the past three years, a healthy proportion of those transactions were motivated by the sale of property in California or Washington/Idaho or Arizona/Nevada through a 1031 Exchange for coastal homes or multi family complexes along the Oregon Coast or I5 corridor.