Keep a contingency, document everything, and set a 15‑minute daily cadence: analyze, offer, follow up.

Were the transfers from the tenant credit card or ACH transactions. 

You can contact some of the Bigger Pockets experts who operate companies that help investors with real estate transactions in SDIRAs:  @Bernard Reisz,  @Dmitriy Fomichenko, @Brian Eastman

Whether you’re using Mojo, REIsimpli, or a phone and spreadsheet, it all comes down to talking to motivated sellers every day and building a follow-up pipeline.If you’re doing it full time:Your daily non-negotiables are:2–3 hours of lead gen (calls/texts)1 hour of follow-up30 minutes of pipeline review/CRM cleanupThat’s how deals get done.

A few key things you’ll want to focus on are:RevPAR (Revenue Per Available Room) – the core metric for valuing operations.Occupancy trends and ADR (Average Daily Rate) – these drive your revenue projections.Expense ratio and management structure – smaller motels can run at 40–50% expenses, while flagged hotels can be much leaner with scale.CapEx and reposition potential – if it’s a rehab, understanding brand standards and conversion costs (for example, turning an independent motel into a soft-branded flag) can make or break the deal.My partner and I have underwritten several hotel/motel projects in the Los Angeles area, so I’m happy to share some insight into how we typically structure the analysis and what lenders look for in this space.

Which I had been on the phone daily with the lender being assured everything was moving forward on there end they were just waiting on the insurance.

Relationships are your best asset — from lenders to contractors to mentors.Analyze daily.

If you want wholesaling, pick one zip, build a real cash buyers list first, then hunt only what they want; pull distressed leads, call daily, make 10 solid offers a week, and follow up like a machine.

You’re on the right track—now make deal flow a system: pick one cash-flow market, set tight buy box criteria, and run a daily “noise-to-numbers” scan so you can underwrite fast and pass or pursue in minutes.

I'm curious about this also, I've been testing Stessa but it's not intuitive and I keep finding weird glitches that make it almost more work than just entering transactions manually.At some point I found it had automatically added a full security deposit return after a move-out, despite me not having manually entered it nor there being a bank transaction - so I contacted Customer Service and then forgot about it because I was testing other software.