You'd be surprised at what you might get - especially now with rents being down and some of these long term owners having grabbed a ton of equity over the last 10 years or so.   

Often the owner provided the wrong account or routing info.

Shoot me a DM and I'm happy to chat.Chris Also, Portland (in the city) has restricted STR licenses to owner-occupied properties, so that won't work if you're living in Salem.Wow good to know, thanks Chris! 

And they are not beholding to owner occ disclosures they can do whatever they want .. you either accept or dont close.He's taking a commercial rental loan made to his LLC.

A contractor hired by the prior owner of a property got stiffed. 

Without having to analyze the numbers I was able to respond with a reasonable explanation of why an investor would not be able to pay as much as owner occupant for his house.I guess people who eschew the 1% rule would go back and spend an hour putting together a detailed analysis to answer that question.

Double check on permits if the previous owners has done a remodel.Do not rely on agents representation.Do not work with a dual agency as a buyer, the agents first commitment is to the sellers.Allow at least a year of seasoning before determining the profits of an investment.Happy to share.

From an owner perspective, that does not want to deal with an STR it may be good.

Some may give you owners address if different from the property, some may integrate with post card and yellow letter mailings. 

This is an owner operated venture.