@Adrian Rice , while you may not have missed the REO wave, if you are looking to wholesale, I would recommend you look to a different strategy for finding deals.

So if you're on the first wave of investors in and find good deals, you may be able to catch the rising tide.

Keep riding that wave.  

The buying wave is already heading north, south and west of the Wynwood epicenter - with large purchases recently made in Little River, Lemon City, and Buena Vista.

I live in SoCal and am a new investor.  New as in I haven't invested in anything yet, but I am actively looking.  As we all know living in SoCal presents some limited options for investing locally so, much like others...

The only stipulation is that you live in one of the units for 1 year, unless you are in the military and get stationed to a new location in which case the term length will be waved.  

Generally its 7 or 10 days.  3 days is not enough time unless  you are a flipper and basically waving the inspection.

They did not invest a lot of their own money in their deals but were able to catch a wave of exponential growth and rolled their profits from one deal to another.

Yes, it is good to make sure that as investors we don't ride the price wave, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't invest either.

You gotta wait for the perfect wave and just trust that it will come with time.Whenever you invest off a negative emotion greed, FOMO (fear of missing out), pride, etc you will have a very bad time.