It's not my main lead source, but if you snipe the good filters (good ai grade, B or better), and look for financial or emergency language on the lead - there's good potential on a few exit strategies.

And just curious, whats your primary source of income currently?

Jimmy sourced the opportunity through local outreach and identified it as a workable renovation candidate.

Wayne sourced the opportunity through direct market activity and recognized the spread early.

The deal was sourced off‑market through a local operator relationship built over time in the Western Kentucky sub‑market.

The same is true if the utilities are turned off for example.So the most important thing to know in your case is that you either have the cash ready or a source ready to lend you that cash otherwise it is a non-starter. 

Ashley — if you’re still sourcing, I work with a few construction lenders active in Southern California who can move quickly depending on scope, LTC, and exit strategy.Happy to point you in the right direction if you’re still looking.

The investors who treat this like a real business and diversify their outreach (email, direct mail, social, meetups, etc.) usually win long term.I also like what you said about video and education, credibility and trust are huge right now, especially with how competitive and saturated things are getting.That’s actually where I’ve been focusing a lot of my time — building predictable seller lead pipelines so investors can stay focused on acquisitions and execution instead of constantly chasing marketing angles.Out of curiosity, are most of the investors you fund generating their own leads, or are some of them looking for additional deal flow sources to scale

.- chatgpt or any other LLM is a great starting point for learning your local laws around raising the rent, just make sure to ask for sources and direct quotes (this helps with hallucinations), then verify- what's your long term goal for the property?

Because of all the sources of RE return, the only one taxed annually is cash flow.