Good morning,I am trying to locate owners of distressed properties in the DC area.

In BRRRR, you buy a distressed property or at least one that has potential for substantial improvement, rehab it to build equity, rent it for positive cashflow, and then refinance out what you invested or more to have funds to do the next deal.

From a distressed sellers perspective, why would they sell to a small unknown flipper when they can click on a Zillow "Instant Offer" and receive more money?

Honestly I'm way more attracted to buying something distressed in driving distance, put some cash into fixing it, re-fi to 75% LTV, and then cash flow for 30 years.What would you do if you were in my situation? 

I wanted to start making calls to absentee home owners and distressed properties in my area, but have a big interest in pre-forclosures I would really like to help people out of a situation like that and already know that the seller has some type of motivation to sell.

Many of the properties I am seeing are either extremely distressed or way over priced.

look @Melissa Mendoza  you saw a distress building and trying to see if there is an opportunity there.Considering the returns you are talking about, the size and cost of the project And the fact that you have no experience in structural/ restoration projects I think you need to fined another deal. 

For now looking to capitalize on distressed properties to flip or take over to cash flow. 

I know a gentleman that bought one distressed location in a somewhat bad neighborhood and rehabbed it, turned around and bought the one next to it , and so on and so forth until he had bought a whole block.

I've viewed quite a few homes and, barring some distressed properties that are too big a project for me, only one has really piqued my interest and seems to have some decent numbers to back it up.Still, small price to pay in my mind for getting to live here.