Seller finance to buyer for a higher interest rate than your own loan with previous owner or bank.The benefit of this model is that you make money of the difference in the two loans.

AirDNA free version will be almost useless to you otherwise, I suggest a premium version for when you are in acquisition mode. 

How will you make $ and survive? 

In distress sale mode or in foreclosure sale mode or somewhere in that realm. 

That is the only way to survive in this business. 

@Clint HarrisThe arbitrage model is good for people to get started if they don’t have a lot of capital.

Section 8 is how every landlord I know (that isn't depending on loan modifications and cursing eviction moratoriums right now) is surviving record recessions and income gaps.

Buying one within a 45 minute or so drive puts the whole process on an easier mode by allowing you to easily get there for whatever reason. 

@Steve Morris our business model is to provide a SERVICE as wholesalers to DISTRESSED customers.

Here for example a value play is to find a built out shopping center where the developer overvalued an out parcel.Then it gets sold as a short sale or a foreclosure.The parcel you can easily then find a corporate client to buy it outright or do a ground lease or triple net deal on it.It's all about buying it low enough going in to have success for the hold or the exit.For the lots as Rich mentioned we have big companies buying them up for 2,000 each for a whole subdivision.The developer will wait years and then cash out from the investment after holding costs.Some parts of the country are building homes now but others are still in a hibernation mode with little activity happening.I would look for low hanging fruit (developed lots,commercial outparcels graded and cleared and plans approved already,etc.).I would not go after raw land if you do not have experience where the heavy lifting and high risk is involved.