Good idea for potential leads?

[David Hodge]

My wife and I are trying to brainstorm creative list ideas to generate leads to wholesale and hold as rentals.  We are in the Denver market which is very difficult to break into.  We are trying to think of some ways to target people who need to sell, but don't have the obvious characteristics that most investors target (run down exteriors, pre-foreclosures, etc).  Has anyone ever targeted people looking for a job?  I was thinking of searching for job seekers in my area using LinkedIn or one of the other job sites, and cross referencing that with home owners in my market.  I figure people looking for jobs might need to sell fast, but won't necessarily show up on any of the other lists, thereby decreasing, or eliminating, my competition.  Has anyone done this?  Is this something you recommend I look further into, or is there a major obstacle here that I'm missing?