Wholesaling out of state Possible ?

I was wondering how hard would it be to wholesale out of state? Any investors out there who have done an out of state wholesale deal, if you could share your experience. How did you go about finding the deals?

From what I hear its not hard to invest out of state, its just that if you have already started in your area, its like starting all over. You have to build your team and merketing from scratch in the new area, and the fact that you arent really there makes it a lot harder. Its hard to take potential team members out to lunch when they are 2k miles away.