You could bet on less established destinations but it's much more speculative.

And just like there are bad investors, bad Realtors, bad lenders and bad carpenters, there are bad appraisers.I'm betting this will not be the last comment in this thread, but to those who may follow, are you speaking from a standpoint of ego or indepth experience in doing appraisals and knowing what and when an appraiser wants it?

Your best bet if you want to go there a lot is to either find one you can fractionalize with friends or find one just a little farther out, with less regulations, to buy and then short-term yourself.

So i would say your best bet is discover and make sure it graduates!

This may be your best bet as it lets you hold off on formation, but its important to make the title company and the lender aware ahead of time so they can update title and prepare the loan docs with the correct entity name.

What's your risk tolerance, I bet tax lien is having way higher risk than mortgage note.

Best bet is usually to find a title company that works with wholesalers as close to the subject property as possible.

New construction in my opinion is much safer than buying and rehabbing unless you are handy and know what to look out for when dealing with contractors. 

Seems the safer route.

Your best bet to finding off-market properties is to do what wholesalers do, and annoy the hell out anyone with a decrepit property or needs money now like a FSBO.