Would I be able to gain traction with pro status and have access to the marketplace?

However on the rent roll it says 2 are pending disposition and 1 has a status of "Draft" which I'm not sure what that means.

Give us a few more selling factors for you (walkability, schools, work, etc). and we can point you in the right direction.There are a number of RE groups- the best ones I have found are the Friday Lunch hosted by @markowens (you can find it via Facebook under Baltimore Investors Network) and the BWI Meetup hosted by Bill Aimes. 

Is it okay to announce or promote in your personal Facebook page that you are wholesaling or buying ‘distressed’ houses?

My plan was to do a combination of cold calling with social media marketing and then paying for advertising (like Facebook, Zillow, Home Light).

You can also search Facebook or meetup.com. if you don't see any there, try contacting some larger brokers or lenders to see if they know any active investors they might put you in touch with.

Their stock sank recently.I wonder if they will charge for rental listings that are syndicated from the MLS.I guess one way around this is to make a bunch of separate zillow accounts, one property per account.Zillow should be thanking US for the data they get.As soon as they start charging, people will just go back to facebook and craigslist.

Came across this post and wanted to resurrect the discussion on the current status of these neighborhoods . . .

It's a little more work on the agent side, but it's totally worth it to get the new listing status again.  

Are you on Facebook by chance?