The biggest issue that investors have with wholesalers is that wholesalers over estimate ARV and under estimate repair and want to make too much on a deal.Let's say you come across a property where you determine ARV will be $120,000 and it will cost $25,000 to fix it and you want to make $5,000 on the deal.

It should be expected that these areas would have the biggest gains as they are the areas that took the biggest falls during the downturn

The biggest advantage I see to NOT doing things in a SDIRA is that it is MUCH easier to get financing.

Rental demand is year 'round with the biggest rental seasons being around the holidays and during the summer months.  

The biggest turn on was when I looked at buying my same house that I owned as a personal as a investment.

My biggest responsibility is to the home owners of the houses that I buy or contract.  

It seems like financing is the biggest barrier to getting started for a lot of people I listen to, so when an answer appears to be right there in black and white, we want to believe it and follow that course. 

Sam Zell has one of the biggest and most successful ones.

The biggest challenge is some data is just not free or hard to get or half the time you will be fixing bad data or in some circumstances a local county doesn't even have data online.  

The downside is less volume and higher price points with higher initial costs including longer vacancies.