Using Airbnb and other ways to find absentee owners?

[Hae-Yuan Chang]

I'm trying to figure out creative ways to reach out to absentee owners. An idea that I had was to check Airbnb for listings that offered entire homes and reaching out to the owners through Airbnb. I feel like one would be more receptive through Airbnb messages than a direct email. Anybody have opinions or other ways to reach out instead of buying lists?