there are a lot of un solicited offers from foriegn entitites these days.. and most are scammers. lure you in get you to pay some fees etc.If these contacts did not come through reliable sources and someone just hit you on the internet be quite cautious.I 

Also, as a follow-up, I'm not finding much in the way of auction sources.

I wanted to cut the middle man and be the source.

Consider the source: I'm in the Bay Area and without even thinking about it I did indeed implicitly make that assumption because that's basically all we've seen if you take any 10 year average from the last 5 decades. 

There's the search feature at the top of the page, but that searches all of the posts on the site and if you're searching for a common word it often returns too many posts to realistically go through.Want an example?

Take advantage of all of the sources of information on this website.  

If anyone knows any good tools or sources to analyze deals, I'd love to look into them.

You might consider the buyers I spoke about as the power source for the wholesaler's activities.Gurus sell a product about real  estate, they aren't buying or selling real  estate, they devise systems that pull the fuses out of the circuitry and replace them with a penny.

Account ClosedThe local REIA and Landlord association meetings are a source of hard money lenders and local partners and info.Paul

@Russell Brazil But wouldn't a Mortgage broker be acting as a middle man and collect a finder's fee, whereas going with a direct lender, this fee is "non-existent" since we are going straight to the source?