If you go the cold call / sms route, pull data from PropStream or Propwire (free option) and focus on motivated sellers - high equity, absentee owners, pre-foreclosure.

Your market choice helpsColumbus is a solid market for this kind of thinking—reasonable price points, stable rents, and enough liquidity that exit/refi options are usually there if the deal is sound.Big picture answer to your question:Yes—intentional short-term inefficiency can absolutely make sense in exchange for faster portfolio growth if:You stress-test refi timingYou’re conservative on ARVYou preserve flexibility on the front endMany investors stall early by optimizing for the “perfect” loan instead of the right sequence of loans.Happy to see you thinking this through so carefully—this is exactly the kind of question that leads to smart, scalable investing decisions.

We reach out to property owners who have filed for eviction against non-paying tenants.We look for cases where the unpaid balance is large (3 months of rent or more), and approach these obviously struggling landlords with an offer to get them paid and free of tenant stress.HOWEVER...This strategy ONLY works if your local city/county court system provides online access to the required case data.

Those tend to attract people actively looking for roommate situations rather than full leases.I’d expect activity to pick up as you get closer to spring, but testing price and expanding where you’re marketing in the meantime is a smart move.

It’s about data, location, and entry timing.I’m starting to share my analysis publicly — what I’m seeing on the ground, how pricing evolves during construction phases, and where early buyers may have an advantage.If you’re an investor interested in: • early-stage new construction • appreciation-focused strategies • data-driven deal analysisI’d love to connect and exchange insights.Problem is that once the economic market changes your data will no longer be relevant  

Great data.

Yeah scraping Auction is smart but the real edge is what you do with the data after it lands in your lap.If you already have Apify pulling all new foreclosures each morning, I’d tighten it up by baking your buy box into the scraper so it only keeps stuff that roughly pencils in, like estimated ARV times 0.7 minus a ballpark rehab and fees still leaves you with your target equity.

Also consider using data tools such as ListSource and PropStream to compile and verify investor contact lists.

You can make Section 8 work in a Denver 4 plex house hack, but don’t assume it pays more than market unless your unit specs line up with the payment standard and you can hit the rent reasonableness test.

I researched Wave, but an advisor told me that if I'm not paying for a product, then my data IS the product---maybe I'm paranoid but security is worth paying for in only my opinion.