So growing pains is not anything new or abnormal for a store of value. 

Second, make it painfully clear how to present the offer to the seller & agent, your agent won't know unless you show them.Third, take the agent to lunch and explain the offer again.

For those actively rehabbing now: what’s your biggest pain point (contractors, materials, hold time, resale risk)?

There are internal workings at banks that make no sense sometimes, but non performing assets are painful to a bank.  

Right now wholesalers are mainly doing:SMS TextingCold CallingDirect Mail / PostcardsThe “next level” is PPL (Pay-Per-Lead) through lead generation companies, so you’re only paying for conversations that raise their hand.Most people start by pulling lists of sellers in distress (pre-foreclosure, tax liens, probate, divorce, etc.) and then stacking those lists so you’re not just hitting one pain point but several.On top of that, a few other things are working well right now:PPC / Google Ads – motivated sellers often search “sell my house fast” before answering cold outreach.Facebook/Instagram Ads with strong local targeting.Driving for Dollars apps (batchdriven, dealmachine) paired with skip-tracing to hit niche properties others might miss.Follow-up systems – 70% of deals come from nurturing leads over time, not just first contact.What seems less effective today:Bandit signs (cities are cracking down, saturation is high).Generic postcard campaigns without a targeted or consistent follow-up strategy.Mass cold email (deliverability has dropped a lot).The real key is consistency + multi-channel.

This was in King Co (Seattle) and was a real pain in the butt for years.

It has been a painful lesson learned and I don' t wish it upon any other bright eyed new investors

Sellers will be able to leverage pricing softwares, scan Public records, GIS maps, title histories, and can educate themselves on deal structuring, seller psychology, and creative financing to negotiate effectively—often with more flexibility than agents constrained by brokerage policies.

The ratio flips -> 100 pages in, 1 page out.For example, I don't let AI draft contracts, but when I am on the road, I have a CustomGPT that summarizes and compares offers by scanning for every checkmark, crossout and every word of language that has been added, which is a pain when you have 30 pages pdf to look over on your phone (and you have 8 offers).

Plus it’s a real pain to manage individual people who don’t know each other and deal with the drama that can come with it. - we also manage 5 padsplits for owners.