They saw the great spread, they knew that I had to close in 3 days, and it was a Thanksgiving holiday and finding another lender and switching wouldn't be possible.

You can spend a lot of money sending mail and get zero response because your message and/or media is incorrect or mismatched.

She owns a media company that she works in for 30+ hours a week, and I think that is key to your first question.

I may be bias, but I persoanlly believe that wholesale buyers are better served doing business with my on my deals than someone else because I have the knowledge and experience to provide proper and accurate numbers and provide deals with good spreads so that the wholesale buyer is profitable.What are your thoughts on buying a wholesale deal from a rehabber?

I use Elance on almost a daily basis for everything from website design, data entry, guest blog posts, SEO, marketing, media kits, etc.

I originally heard that it was a joint force of Seals, AF Pathfinders/Operators and Rangers, about 40 involved, now the media is saying it was the JTF with Seal Team 6.

So if FL process is like NC, I'd wait for the courthouse sale, pay about $43.5K ($41K note with 5% trustee, foreclosure sales fee added) and have a little better spread.

Regardless of any rules, $100 is a tiny spread.

Why not build a portfolio of 30-40 of these houses spread amongst a few different cities and live off the returns ad infinitum?

Even if that's the case, if you are able to find a buyer at more than $2,000, you could make the spread by providing them the deal at $10,000 or $9,500 or whatever.