If I have someone that is marginal that expresses interest, I will book them last minute in between two showing slots of strong candidates to fill up the schedule, but more importantly to create demand pressure on the strong candidates. 

Somebody's gonna pay $125 to rent a garage slot anywhere in West Mifflin?

Sure maybe you can find some lease options, but good luck trying to find wholesale deals out there when there are SO MANY sharks in the water.  

For what it's worth, listing agents can post their listings to Zillow (on both desktop and mobile as well as on partner sites), be identified as the listing agent, fixed in the top slot, with links back to their listing site -- for free.

Also, you will need to show on your tax return whether you are replacing, not replacing, or whether the time slot has expired.

If I'm looking into multi-family in the metro area, that price jumps to at least $500k and that is going to be for a so/so property at best, but helps to offset some of the exposure to vacancy, but rents are also operating on a pretty razor thin margin and I'd still have to self-manage to really make ends meet.If I look at the KC market, I can get a really nice duplex for $150k, for $30k down, have it managed professionally and still cash flow $400/mo.  

I got out of the REO  game and got back into being a licensed agent who works for a wholesale company with other licensed agents.The REOs that do pop up are descended upon like an injured fish in a school of sharks.

I wouldn't say the small cadre of frequent buyers at the auction here are sharks, as others do.

Just like the individuals on Shark Tank.

In some real estate offices, you can see these sharks circling when the new Realtor is hired, it's really more about the basis of their business model, engaging with others more than going it alone.