I have watched my local real estate market closely the past few years, I am on sites like craigslist, zillow, and loopnet numerous times a week seeing what's on the market, what typical rents are, what different types of properties typically sell for.Over those few years I have seen numerous different properties advertised online in my area for owner financing, so I know there are plenty of property owners/investors that are open to it.

Hi BP, I recently walked away from a deal because a seller home was unpermitted to be a multi family ( he also had tenants who were paying $1,150 which they broke their lease ,because of numerous reasons at owners fault) I have a buyer willing to buy but seller doesn't want to drop price any further to what the buyer will be comfortable with, should I continue to see if a buyer would be willing to buy it unpermitted at agreed upon price or move on to the next deal ( owner and tenant both called the police on each other, it was a show) it is a good neighborhood with waterfront homes.

wait till you do a couple of deals to see if you like the wholesaling process.2. yes direct mail campaign ( just do whats in your budget all it takes is one seller willing to do a contract) you can mail 10 or 1,000 letters it only take one seller to comply.3. direct mail and bandit signs ( small budget)4. just ask real estate attorneys do they work with investors, if they do they can write you a contract or find one on the web and run it by an RE attorney thats what I did.5.

There are numerous properties like this, it just takes time to find the right balance of purchasing in an older complex (lower cost) that's well maintained.

I've looked at these areas numerous times.

This having done, I can publish the papers like this one on the web being not afraid to be circumvented.

I currently have a great night time position that allows me to have numerous time on my hand to take up investing.

There were also numerous box-springs, mattresses, etc in the house.  

After the market dropped out I started building technology companies and have been doing so ever since.As of recent I have been building a geospatial search engine which aims to simplify working with numerous geospatial data sets (i.e. zoning, overlays, parcel outlines, etc.).

Ok, so I have read the books and the web success stories.