Hello @Troy Patt,When setting property selection criteria, start with the tenant pool segment the property attracts, then work backward to what kind of properties to buy (to attract those tenants.)

The majority of Real Estate Professionals today do the following, and miss 97% of their segmented target market.Only 3% of any given target market is ready to buy (or sell in this case) immediately.

The hotel industry is segmented as Chris mentioned.

Wholesaler, flipper or follow footsteps in the buy and hold segment?

Hosting someone on Airbnb vs. renting to someone is a distinction without a difference in my mind.

@Matthew Stoughton There is a BP Meetup sponsored by the wildly handsome and distinctly articulate @Phillip Dwyer in Henderson next week, 1-30-14, 7:00 PM at nacho Daddy's just off the 215 and Easter.

Donald on BiggerPockets, we're not politicians here.I happened to be of the opinion that interest earned by professional private lenders or hard money lenders is ordinary income for their lending businesses (as in "in the business of lending money"), as distinct from portfolio income on passive investments and casual loans.Eamonn - please correct me if I'm wrong and explain how would you classify the income and expenses of a HM lender, let's say operating as a partnership. 

Offers for this market segment were going for 30k over asking, and still not winning!

What is Distinct About Sellers in these Areas, should anything be handled differently/specifically?

Yup, do it smart, as tenant's vacate, but I think your in the WRONG segment of REI.