The decision may hinge on whether you are moving a few miles away or a few states away.You'll have to meet health and safety code requirements and perform maintenance and repairs on the property yourself, or hire others for these tasks whatever you have decided.

You have the right to pick and choose who you work with but make sure you do accurate research.

In other words contact a local rental focused realtor and let them know about the opportunity for them to pick up some business.

Go to the meeting, listen to the workshops, network with people, and buy some people lunch/dinner/coffee to pick their brain.

I can recommend a loan officer for the 203K's if you want to pick his brain.Hopefully I'll see you at the next SJREIA meeting!

I think @Kyle J. raises a very important point...why would any investor go through a wholesaler to purchase a listed property and pay more than they would just picking it up with a realtor?

Guess which one my contractor picked.  

When dealing with people, we need to pick our battles carefully and a person who can't stand the thought of tenants not meeting their own lofty standards should probably refrain from being a landlord.

It would be useless to pick stuff I liked.it is not that hard for YOU.  

So, I am going in with my brokerage and picking up the 2.5% buy-side by presenting the offer though neither of us will need to do any work on the official BRE side.