Thanks Cole- like any salesperson, a broker might use pressure tactics. 

I am new to wholesaling and working to complete my first deal soon. What are some of the strategies you use in order to locate distressed properties and how have you faired using these strategies? In your experience, ...

Advanced topic - buying up debt at a discount on a home can be a great tactic to give you an advantage at a sale. 

You are touting a tactic and strategy not available to mom and pop investors.

That and other creative pressure tactics usually achieve my goals.

This would be one tactic to get cash out of the current note rather than hypothecating it. 

., where it was previously headquartered.High-pressure sales tactics were used to secure money for what were promised to be “low risk” and “conservative” investments, but in reality the funds were funneled to real estate owned by Shapiro, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.Woodbridge eventually became financially insolvent, the scheme began to unravel, and Shapiro in 2017 considering filing for bankruptcy, prosecutors said.Still, he, Roseman and Acevedo continued to sell the fraudulent investments without telling investors Woodbridge was on the verge of collapse, according to the indictment.

I have been adventuring into off market deals and pursuing them with some direct mail tactics.

With this tactic I also keep debt on the unit, which limits the amount that someone can even sue for. 

I am about 50k over in a messy flip I bought from a skeezy (think boiler room sales tactic, no RE knowledge) BP wholesaler (without doing due diligence because they set it up so you have to buy on the spot).