“but none of them were successful applicants who met our minimum criteria”Are you using a Web 2.0 service to verify and check applications?

Do you get them from a site on the web, create your own?

I am looking for a web site that will list apartment buildings that are either in foreclosure or fresh REO nationwide.

My biggest annoyance with the process thus far is that the MLS doesn't output lattitude/longitude coordinates for each property (that I can see, at least), so I have to use the property addresses copied from my Excel spreadsheet over to a web-based program that converts to Lat/Long.

I am utilizing their SEO operation, CRM program, Web Hosing and tying that all in with managed Google Ads. 

If you look at our web-site, her name is Sherell, under "our team".I agree with your overall assessment, these "management companies" are a joke when it comes to handling issues, we will never hire one, much rather hire someone and train them in-house.

In the past there were a few "no money down" barkers on TV, now there seem to be hundreds on the internet. 2- My history of losing in the bad economy- from my employment to my savings for retirement- I want to methodically with hard work begin getting back what I lost.3- TV definitely peeks my interest with all the rehab shows4- BiggerPockets- if it wasn't for BiggerPockets, I would be so overwhelmed- yet by reading posts, I am beginning to see if you guys can do it I can do it- haha5- The economy- it looks like it might begin to be taking an upswing and there looks like there are bargains out there right now, still to be had.6- Education- I never even heard of wholesaling before I got on the BiggerPockets web site.

I’ve searched the web and intended to everyone’s success stories and even invested money into trying to understand the wholesaling process.

Does anyone have any books or web sources they recommend for a somewhat newbie?

With a quick search on the county web site, I found out that the house has an absentee owner who is in Kansas.