Lastly I have virtually unlimited buying for any property SF MF I choose to flip.  

If I can get a property for virtually no money, (in your case a 3.5% down payment) in a solid neighborhood in a prime city and have that property more or less break even once ALL expenses are accounted for, then I would go for it, especially since I am financially stable enough that I won't notice the cash flow, or lack thereof.   

I have a friend who is very good at the art of the wholesale and he loves everything about it.

.#5 Practice, Practice, PracticeWalkthrough potential rehab properties (or find properties virtually online) and practice creating detailed scopes of work, quantifying repairs and estimating rehab costs for the projects.#6 Get Your First Rehab ProjectYou can practice all you want, but ultimately you will learn the most about estimating rehab costs by actually rehabbing a house.

Ryan Hill of The Virtual Realty Group Arkansas, LLC (Hog Properties) was the buying agent.

Ryan Hill of The Virtual Realty Group Arkansas, LLC (Hog Properties) was the buying agent.

For one, investment sponsors would need to disclose their data in order to have something to aggregate against and most sponsors themselves are not using state of the art data capturing and portal interfaces yet. 

The art of buying houses comes down to solving a problem, you can find that problem if your mouth is moving.

Except that this foreclosure of the first would necessitate a public sale at which the bidding for a $500k house needing virtually no repairs would go much higher than $300k.

Most were no money down seller financing deals but I had a great income & virtually all living expenses were paid by company.