Many know local dealers and I'd much rather buy from them whenever possible.

I'm trying to figure out a strategy on buying real estate from the seller (no lenders involved) on payments, adding value and reselling it for profit and thus, paying off the original seller.

Two major differences here are:  (1) most "investors" in the mid 2000s  we're not buying for cash flow.  

Investment Info:Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment.

The market for buyers on QCD is going to be smaller so you are limiting your market with a QCD but we buy/sell homes all the time via QCD just need to find the right parties.  

But I also feel that over the last several years, many groups are getting greedy and wanting to be paid to transact more than buy good deals.  

Fiverr and upwork also for SEO or for youtube etc. they backlink to random sites overseas and get overseas subscribers which really do not help you IMHO.

Our goal is to start buying MF within the next year to two years.

We finally decided that we want to try to buy our first rental property.

I live in Orange County and I have been looking into some out-of-state investments for single family up to triplex for a buy and hold to build my rental portfolio.