I am not sure if Wholesale is the right description for these people, but you know what I'm talking about. They're not brokers but most claim to be direct to seller or one away from the seller. Anyway, with the market...

But I agree, most of my peers are definitely not interested in this space unfortunately. 

You can find quickly who the good and bad players are in this space

New roof, new windows, new vinyl floor.

When they move, you are frequently going to have to paint and redo floors every vacancy.

Some markets can have a large numbers of new build, A type communities that would create over supply in that space. that situation could affect the rental pricing between A and B type. while C type will keep servicing the Blue Collar demographic. 

I recently did an evaluation on all properties that met my definition of bread and butter - listed for sale in RI and Southern MA for less than $400k in both MLS’s (ran a query and exported results for each) and was surprised to find that on average the cost per sq foot (list price compared to living space) on average was higher in RI than Mass.I am looking for fix and flips and am always looking for property with low sq dt to list price ratios.

New appliances, new paint, new floors, washer/dryer hookups, etc.  

I would speak to an architect and private engineer to see if they have experience in this part of town since ultimately you will need to pull permits to convert a garage into a living space.

im curious... i have a detached 2 car garage with its own meter sitting right next to my house. the space is 550sqft with a walk up attic, i was thinking of adding another 500sqft in front of my garage and extending the attic to the new space to be built i have enough space.. hows the legal part of this work?