D-class will always be D-class because it is a "war zone."

I’ve come across numerous times being tied up in avg deals cost me a great deal

I have tried numerous services, all woefully deficient. 

There are so many good and bad pockets, one min you are in a good neighborhood the next you’re in a war zone. 

Even had a little bidding war!

In the MLS, I'm not finding good deals lately, here some recent examples of what I thought could be good opportunities, but price-wars end up raising the price so much that I lost any interest.ARV 300  - Asking 229, SOLD for 250k cash 3b1b https://www.zillow.com/homes/8...ARV 340 - Asking 280, SOLD for 300k https://www.zillow.com/homedet...With these tight margins, it only makes sense if you pay in cash or are willing to not make much profit.

If you spread too far then it gets counter productive because you have numerous PM's and too little local knowledge.Then I moved into my nicest and least profitable OS property and now manage them myself; they are all within an easy hour drive with virtually no traffic.You have a very long list of states and cities there you might try to narrow it down.

If you are not a cash buyer, you’ll have to fight in a bid war, with 10-20K over asking price.

Hi,I've started a blog called "bad landlord" in which I aim to share my lessons learned from my numerous mistakes as a real estate investor.

Numerous jobs have also been created as a result of Covid...I have not had one missed payment, a couple late ones but nothing to do with covid.