"B" areas are nice, safe and perfectly livable -- sort of middle of America, and the average person probably wouldn't mind living there.

Consider the source: I'm in the Bay Area and without even thinking about it I did indeed implicitly make that assumption because that's basically all we've seen if you take any 10 year average from the last 5 decades. 

I bet you will be buying a house in no time once you start working with a lender that is able to offer a variety of loan products and outline the steps you need to take.

From there you have buy and hold investors for rentals and they tend to pay the most for SFR investors.Look at the data for MLS and see that over the last 6 months for instance 200 properties sold to investors at an average of 140,000 sales price.

I am seeking some current Miami-Dade investor feedback on average cash flows per unit being received from 2-4 unit properties in the area.Looking forward to the feedback!

You might consider the buyers I spoke about as the power source for the wholesaler's activities.Gurus sell a product about real  estate, they aren't buying or selling real  estate, they devise systems that pull the fuses out of the circuitry and replace them with a penny.

Whether your solution is going through the secondary market or a commercial loan... they typically offer both of these products in house at competitive rates.

Sorry to say, but much of all that is the  fire hose.Like any industry you begin by learning about the product and the rules of the industry.You need to learn real estate basics before you try to  learn how to deal in real estate.I suggest you get a text book  for Realtors to study for their license, that is the meat of the industry in all states, but states are unique.You'll then find out that real estate is unique and is not dealt with like personal property.

There are a lot of Z-wave hub products on the market check them out. 

I feel that's a good thing to do, but by no means required in order to be an ethical person.In other businesses I've bought products from one vendor and resold elsewhere for 3-5 times as much.