To find strong rental markets, crunch the numbers for potential rental properties and do your market research.

So, looking at the flips I take on, with anticipated profits in the $70k+ range, the setup costs alone are eating nearly 20% of your potential profits, and that is before any real splits with your investors, leaving both your investors and you with not a lot of money left to spread around.A fund could work, but typically, for the economics of a syndication/fund structure to work, you are looking at several million of equity, leveraged up to high single millions, if not into $10+ million range for their to be enough money to make it worth everyone's efforts.

Appraisers aren’t keen to train their future competition - they gain nothing out of it. 

Police reports will also be required, and someone is potentially going to jail.  2.

There's also potential for developing "shared living" units where 2 or more people could share space, etc.

In all honesty, this rental increase in a depressed area makes me wary that future increases will be more unreasonable and more extreme, and I should "get while the gettin's good."

Many investors do not account for the future and are often looking to put the least amount down.

As far as your wholesaling journey, I would probably advise you to start off by buying a list of potential motivated sellers, skip tracing them and then cold calling them.  

There could potentially be an option for the heirs to assume the mortgage when the estate is settled.

While I'm excited about the potential, I'm also unfamiliar with the specific dynamics of the Orlando market.I'm particularly interested in finding a small multi-family property (duplex, triplex, or fourplex) that would be a good long-term hold.