Hey Brian, I was doing some random Google searches online on acquiring apartments and I came across your story.

If they are just random agents, most of the time they don't understand what you're trying to do.

I Randomly found this when looking for a different post.

I can't tell you how many random contacts I have in my phone that just say "Handyman (City)", "HVAC (City)", "Pest Control (City)", etc.

By having them opt-in for some free newsletter, ebook or just random local count then you keep contact with them for the fraction of the cost. 

The firm holds free seminars for landlords to ask any random question too, I went to one before finding my first property (I really need to go again now that I'm an actual landlord) but I had him write up a contract for my first rental that I have tweaked for the subsequent properties I bought.I also had him add things specific to my request like forbidding the use of candles for non-emergency situations.

It’s not as easy to WFH in the random small towns of America as most urban cities when your best available internet speed is 10% as fast as the “norm”

A lender I called at random referred my to her.

People that wholesale may do other "creative" transactions like take title subject-to, which may or may not be frowned upon by their real estate commissionSome random things that come to mind...

I knew that if we had to turn it over it would cost me around $1,000 to catch up on some random repairs, updates and freshening up (no security deposit billable damage), another month in vacancy and costs to re-rent so the best decision for me was to lower the rent in that case.