I agree with your assessment on those.Recently I am mostly buying by tracking down owners of distressed property, from website leads, or occasionally from road signs.But I went to a seminar on Saturday and there was a wholesaler there doing 10+ deals a month, getting almost all of them through direct mail.  

Mostly for paperwork and some data sorting / occasional cold call.

I get sent so much garbage from wholesalers thats higher then would even sell on market but occasionally newbies get suckered in and buy from them thinking off market means below market.

(Almost always an icemaker, occasionally a compressor.

I hope the current lender who hold hte mortgage on the land will dish out another 1.1M since at 18% he is making good money and with the home sold, there should be no reason other than he doesn’t want that much on his balance sheet, so fingers crossed there.

Occasionally but pretty rare you will read agents say “legal non conforming” which could be a legal basement/attic with only one exit or low ceilings that was legalized due to grandfathering, making an adu etc. 

You can occasionally get free macro data reports on niches from REIS and some others trying to get you to buy into their subscriptions.If you want constant data you have to pay to play.Generally most general data for an area can be found on city data.

For a high end, I might go back to granite, but it does need to be sealed occasionally, and I’m more into maintenance free whenever I can get it.

Why the hell pay 2-3x as much just to have way more traffic and view the ocean occasionally?

I occasionally teach continuing education to brokers, and I am stunned by how little most of them know about contract law.