Recently I found one in Tacoma near a new casino being built.

I live in the Northumberland area and I have heard that there are meetings around but have never been able to figure out where or when so I think the Durham region is where I will have to branch out to.

Luckily I was familiar with that market (I was regional manager of a 180 unit community there) and knew right away where the rents should be and how we could get them there.

very regional and asset class driven.. last year I paid 125k for an assignment of a 5.5 million dollar deal.. so it depends @Caleb Heimsoth as caleb stated though in the lower value asset areas that I also fund on the east coast its very common to have a bunch of wholesalers on the same hud.. 500.00 1k 2k.. but I have seen houses bought for 10k and sold for 40k with wholesaler making 30k.. 

Some of our largest employers are the school district and regional hospital.

For instance:  Little Rock, Arkansas vs Nashville, TN — LR’s populations (painting with broad strokes here) largely lives in Little Rock because they are from LR or from the region.  

We used a small regional bank and they didn't care about the source of capital as long as (1) it wasn't collateralized by the property and (2) it didn't push my personal DTI past 43%.

In a lot of areas, one could purchase an entire portfolio of properties for less than one would cost in some regions.

There is also another website that I have used which has a matrix showing regions, types of properties, loans, loan rates, etc.

To sum it up, investing in SFR's or small MF's (to the extent they exist) in class A neighborhoods in class A regions of the country is a long game best played by those who are not looking for immediate cash flow and/or can tolerate some negative cash flow (folks with some means from outside of these RE investments) and who may also seeking some shelter from capital gains taxes that are assessed with some frequency on mutual funds and similar investments.