@Alexandra Wright How about this (found on Wake county's website):Government records in North Carolina are public in nature unless identified as confidential pursuant to law.

Giving your best attention to your job will naturally become a part of how you operate.

Can you suggest an alternative course that's just as good. 

Books I still need to get started on though, so I'll get on that and learn some alternative ways to finance properties.

As a fellow-wholesaler, the best advise I could give you, is that you become well-familiarized with alternate ways to structure deals in order to make the deals work in situations where there are title issues such as first or second mortgages, liens, low or no equity deals, etc.

It's less financial and more psychological in nature, but I think it's sort of a simple way to make sure you're not spreading yourself too thin.

Also in regards to continuously putting down 15% - 20%, at the time I was purchasing the property was before I had discovered the BP podcast and was not aware of all of the more creative ways to purchase properties and my only other known alternative at the time was to use an FHA loan on which the mortgage insurance would have diminished the return so much that it wasn't feasible. 

@Cheryl Pepper if you don't want to buy fixer-upper deals from wholesalers, then your next best alternative would be to reach out to Steve L. 

Purchase Price: $82,000 (seller pays closing costs)Renovations: $60,000Loan: 203k loan, 5% interest rate, 30 years, 15% reno contingencyDown Payment: 25%My partner only have $33k in cash for down payment which allows us to take get a $132k loan: $82k purchase price + $50k for renovations + 15% contingency ($7500)My thoughts were to get the $132k loan and then add 15% contingency: $7500 @0% down, 5% interest, 30 years = $40.26 per month)Additional $2,500 or more in renos will be paid out of pocket by me (credit cards) since I cannot just give my partner the extra cash for the down payment (just his name will be on the loan and we will alternate so we can get 8 conventional loans (4 each) vs. putting both our names on the loans and getting only 4)After 1 year, we take a home equity loan to repay our out-of-pocket reno costs and to use to buy more properties Thoughts on this strategy?

If it is a good contractor, then he will understand that you could be a repeat customer and it is natural for you to be guarded doing this out of state.