I love when clients asking me to look at houses because it means they're serious and motivated to buy.

But to @Zachary Cain Humphrey's point about motivation to buy a vacation rental in Colorado (or Destin or the Smokies) is that most of my buyers also want a home to visit.

Bigger Pockets was the catalyst for making that huge jump, and has kept me going and motivated.

It got us motivated, organized, and ready to begin our investing and we hit the ground running with five properties in one year. 2019 has been quiet, no acquisitions this year, really just focused on some debt paydown, saving, and monitoring the portfolio.

I just learned - from my pest control guy, about a home with motivated sellers! 

Now, feeling prepared and informed, we're ready to take a decisive step toward acquiring a duplex property by this summer, to begin building our rental portfolio.We're particularly drawn to the Pinellas-Hillsborough County areas, our childhood home, motivated by its long-term growth potential and our deep local knowledge. 

For all of the visitors that will continue to come.My current thinking is to look for a resale property(not new but not old) from a seller who is motivated to move their property due to the increasing supply driving down rental prices (buy fear, sell greed - as Warren Buffet says).

So those methods not only can not target motivated sellers, even if they DID target them, they wouldn't sign up with you.Why do you think the conversion rate is less than 0.1% doing those strategies?

I may have to make some friendly threats that I can do things to make the price go up (like get insurance), and hopefully it’ll motivate them to redeem.

Thanks, John, yea I'm looking for motivated sellers.