Be patient and spend some time consuming the success and failure of investors who are achieving what you want.  

also avoid (or at least patiently, thoroughly screen) anybody who is in a big hurry to rent,   and run away screaming if they offer to pay multiple months up front in cash or they try to get you to to skip any portion of the screening process, or start in on the sob stories.as for finding people with credit better than 700:https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/credit-cards/articles/heres-what-americans-fico-scores-look-like-how-do/so roughly half of people have credit of 700 or better.   

There is no problem that has no solution we just need to be patient and resourceful.

I would rather be patient now and avoid drama down the road.

It was a pain and I would not to that again for him but financially I am better off because I was patient.

If the market is slow you simply need to be patient.

Get the dates right and be patient.

I would have been SO much better off just being patient, even if it took me another month. 

But if you're creative and patient, they can be found.  

I am trying to build a network to better find off market deals but it is taking some time - I think it will come if I am patient.