Good news: I finally got my P411 approved and started searching yesterday.
Bad news: Some "not so fun" first time impressions of P411 as well:
- uploaded photo but to my surprise, takes two days to be approved... that's a big bummer for a provider looking me up within the next two days I would think.
- my browser it turned out didn't support clicking on the provider in the search result to see their detailed bio page, so I sent an embarassing private message to one of them asking questions that their bio already answers (of course they didn't respond). Finally figured it out after I sent, it but I think it makes me look like someone who doesn't read their bio and is a time waster.

Figured it out though and everything's fine now, but the damage might be done with that provider
- only found ONE provider in my entire state (VA), was newbie friendly, and was my type (asian)
That really bummed me out all of that pain and expense to get on P411... and only one provider there that I would actually go with.
- no response - I PMed her and I attempted to schedule an appointment with her but she hasn't responded to me yet.

Admittedly I haven't given her 24 hours yet for the appointment request, but I'm just super bummed out with this whole experience and that's affecting my patience.
Of course, I will try to look the bright side and not give up. I will keep searching each day on P411 (including other states), and also keep trying to improve my initial contact messages but obviously I'm not doing it right yet. I also still attempt to reach out to providers on TER as well through their actual websites but no responses as well...
Hope it gets better... Really depressing...