But if you read/practice then they will find you golds ..Once you make 50 written offers then probably you will get a deal.

When top agents have 10 to 20 files go at any one time a TC is worth their weight in gold..

Harvey was an example of such a hurricane that affect many areas of town that was not in the 100 or 500 year flood plain thus many homeowners did not carry flood insurance.

Picking one, sticking to it, evaluating and reevaluating your results then tweaking and repeating until gold.  

You have a lot on your plate and carrying high debt can be a scary place to be.

What about if someone is injured, or worse, and cannot carry out their responsibilities.

If I do find something here for $350k, put $100k into it and sell it for $550,000, after closing cost, carrying costs, selling costs and the high interest of a HML there's probably only $30-50k in profits left.

Thank you for that gold nugget there!

If I ambushed my first seller carry I would have missed out on an awesome 15yr relationship with someone that sold me more good properties, became my best private lender and more importantly a friend and mentor of sorts I view deals with and bounce ideas off of. 

Agent is doing a very poor job if they are allowing their seller to take an offer for 20k less than you can sell It for.an agent with MLS cast a wider net and has a much easier time than selling  property than a wholesaler.. at least as it relates to just fix and flip properties.there are instances were an Agent and a Seller might not realize hidden value that a sharp investor will know.. this is how we make our money.. mining for gold..