Should I simply look for the houses in the area that are cheapest and offer to buy for 10-15% less, and then either rehab or wholesale?  

It is best to refer to the title company/ attorney/ settlement agent involved in your transaction and your loan officer at the bank/ lender, but in most cases you would simply wire the funds required to close 1-2 days prior to your target closing date taking into consideration wire cutoff times and any processing time your bank requires.

You will discover every vacant property on your route.

They are simply administrators and processors, and do not provide any kind of diligence or IRS compliance guidance other than general education.  

Hi all, super excited to have discovered this resource!  

In the areas discussed above, you have to take rentometer with a big grain of salt but in a neighborhood like the old west end of Richmond in the JR Tucker High School district there are an overwhelming amount of very similar 3bed/1bath brick ranchers so you can be a little more confident in the comps rentometer gives you.Market knowledge and familiarity is key (and cannot be gotten simply by surfing the internet, no matter how well the data is represented) which is why you should consider working with an investor-friendly Realtor (shameless self-promotion aside...). ;)

Hi,My name is Jorge Perez and I'm glad to have discovered the BP community from doing some research about so called real estate guru's.

May be the same as above, but discovering or creating unique opportunities for situations that didn't present itself on traditional or under normal circumstances!

Since then I've discovered many new ways to acquire property (thanks to BP Podcasts) and am currently buying 2 houses per month.  

But a landlord can't simply take a deposit and then not deliver.